Elder-berries are used for colouring port wine, 74 flowers are used for flavouring insipid white wines, 75
Entire beer, origin of its name, 144 composition of, 146
Extract of cocculus indicus is used by fraudulent brewers, 136
False strength, how given to wine and spiritous liquors, 19, 192 how given to vinegar, 220
Flavour of French brandy, how imitated, 194
Flour, new, of an indifferent quality, how rendered fit for being made into good and wholesome bread, 107 different sorts, from the same kind of grain, 99 sour, practice of converting it into bread, 105
Food, rendered poisonous by copper vessels, 252 by leaden vessels, 257
Frothy head of porter, how artificially produced, 133
Geneva, Dutch, quantity of alcohol which it contains, 205
Gin, adulteration of, 187 quantity of alcohol contained in different sorts, 205 dangerous method of clarifying, 202 legal exactment of its saleable strength, 197 _proof_, what is meant by this term, 188 strength of, how ascertained by the Excise, 188 sweetened, fraudulent practice of composing it for sale, 200 unsweetened, ditto ditto, 200 false strength, how given, 202
Hermitage, quantity of brandy which it contains, 95
Hops, adulteration of, prohibited by law, 132 its chemical action upon beer, 133
Hydrometer, legal, now in use for ascertaining the strength of spiritous liquors, 187
Imitation arrack, 196 tea. See Tea leaves coffee. See Coffee
Leaden pumps and water reservoirs, dangerous effects to be apprehended from them, 62
Lisbon, quantity of spirit which it contains, 94
Lemon acid, adulteration of, 243 method of detecting it, 244
Madeira, quantity of brandy which it contains, 94
Malaga, quantity of brandy contained in it, 94
Malt, patent, for colouring porter, 123 disadvantages of, 124 liquors, dangerous adulteration of, 115 strength of different kinds. See Porter, 126 spirits, adulterations of, 197 characteristic flavour, to what owing, 197 nefarious practices of compounding them for sale, 199 false strength, how given, 202 act restricting the strength of it, 197
Meat, salted, should not be preserved in leaden vessels, 258
Milk, improper practice of keeping it in leaden vessels, 257
Mint salad, pernicious custom of preparing it, 258
Multum, a substance employed for adulterating beer, 17 seizures of, at various breweries, 136