A couple ads in front for Lacour's New Orleans liquor business. Pebbled brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Early Edition. NY: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1853].
According to Reid Mitenbuler in his book Bourbon Empire, "Distilling manuals of the era that described how to make charlatan whiskies sold well. Pierre Lacour's 'The Manufacture of Liquors, Wines, and Cordials without the Aid of Distillation'...advised rectifiers to to make 'Old Bourbon Whiskey' by mixing four gallons of neutral spirits with three pounds of sugar, one pint of decoction of tea. oil of wintergreen, tincture made with cochineal (a red dye made from the crushed and dried bodies of insects), and burnt sugar. The whiskey probably wasn't good, but it was profitable."
“The author provides recipes for the manufacture of imitation sherry, port, madeira, claret, red wine, white wine, champagne, malaga, and even cheaper versions of these wines. Another book that provides information on how to make ‘wine without grapes” (Gabler G26820). “A damaged ‘5’ in the copyright notice has sometimes been misread as a ‘6’ leading to entries in the NUC and a citation in Wheaton and Kelly to the work as dated 1863” (Cagle & Stafford 427). Bitting, 269.
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