Post #251748 by thinkingbartender on Thu, Aug 31, 2006 1:46 AM

I was perusing http://books.google.com/ when I found the following:

"Clarke's Complete Cellarman: The Publican and Innkeeper's Practical Guide", by William Clarke.

Published: 1830.

It contains recipes for Shrub, Punch, Milk Punch, Bitters, Cordials and how to remove the blackness from hollands gin should you happen to drop an iron nail into it!-)

And best of all it was a British publication!!!

Look for it on http://books.google.com/

or use this link.

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC19239987&id=YGoAx-x6pNgC&pg=PR6&lpg=PR8&dq=bitters&as_brr=1

Cheers!

George S.

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