CHAP. XX.Of Sugar-Spirit.
Wemean by a Sugar-Spirit, that extracted from the Washings, Scumings, Dross, and Waste of a Sugar-baker’s Refining-house.
These recrementitious, or drossy Parts of the Sugar are to be diluted with Water, fermented in the same manner as Molosses or Wash, and then distilled in the common Method. And if the Operation be carefully performed, and the Spirit well rectified, it may be mixed with foreign Brandies, and even Arrac in a large Proportion, to great Advantage; for this Spirit will be found superior to that extracted from Treacle, and consequently more proper for these Uses.