2i5 THE TOILET 



VINEGARS. 



269. Diftilled Vinegar. 



Fill a Hone cucurbit about three parts 

 and a half full of White Wine Vinegar 5 

 place the veflel in a furnace fo contrived 

 as to contain three parts of the height of 

 the cucurbit ; mould the openings that 

 remain between the fides and the upper 

 part of the vefTel with clay tempered with 

 water ; lute the veflel, ?ix on a receiver, 

 and begin your diflillation with a moderate 

 fire, which is to be increafed by degrees 

 till about five fixths of the Vinegar are 

 drawn off, which is called Diftilled Vine- 

 gar. A fmall quantity of acid Liquor 

 ftill remains in the cucurbit of the con- 

 fluence of Honey, which if you think pro- 

 per may be dried hard by the afllflance of 

 a vapour - bath. The Vinegar diftilled 



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