SATAN'S POTIONS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1100, 14 June 1882, Page 2

SATAN'S POTIONS.

♦ A man named McHugb. was recently arraigned before the Resident Magistrate at Napier on charges of drunkenness. It]came out in evidence that, on being searched, it appeared that he was a " grog doctor," for he had recipes and a stock of chemicals for carrying on his vile vocation. To give some idea of the rascally stuff that an unscrupulous public may foist upon non connoisseurs as the " real thing," the Telegraph publishes the following true copy of the recipes found on McHugh, remarking that it is perhaps, hardly necessary to advise readers who are undesirous to quit this sublunary world in prospect of reaching another, not to prepare or consume any of the following compounds called by the specific names of whisky, port, (fee, &c, the method, «fee., of their manufacture being given merely for the purpose of placing a too susceptible public (so far as stimulating cordials are concerned) on their guard : — Whisky, 28 gallons — 5 spirits of wine, 14lb white sugar, 5 drops of creosote, and 4oz essence of capiscum. Port wine, 28 gallons — Boil 31b of logwood and 2oz of sandal wood for one hour then add 181bs of white sugar, £lb carbonate of soda, 2oz oil of mus catel, 4oz of citric acid, and add six gallons of best brandy. Brandy 28 gallons — 9 gallons spirits of wine, 151 b white sugar, 2oz oil of cognac, 4oz carbonate of soda, and color with burnt sugar, coloring to suit Rum, 28 gallons — 5 gallons spirits of wine, 161 b white sugar, 2oz»oil of Jamaica, 2oz essence of capsicum, and then color with burnt sugar. Gin, 28 gallons — 5 gallons spirits of wine 141 b white sugar, 2oz oil of juniper, loz essence of capsicum, and 4ozs carbonato of soda ; fine Sherry 23 gallons — Boil common raisins chopped for one hour, then add 121 b white sugar, |lb carbonate of soda, and 8 gallons best brandy ; fine.