Take half a pint from a quart of rich milk, and boil in it a large handful of bitter almondsor peach kernels, blanched and broken up; also half a dozen blades of mace, keeping the sauce-pan closely covered.
They must be pounded till they become a smooth paste; mixing together the sweet and the bitter almonds, and removing them, as you go on, from the mortar to a plate.
In the morning put half a pint of milk into a small sauce-pan, and boil in it a large stick of cinnamon broken up, and a handful of bitter almonds or peach-kernels broken small.
Bay leaves, bitter almonds, and fruit kernels, if not equally dangerous, are pernicious enough to make it very advisable not to use them.
Blanch and beat fine in a mortar, four ounces of bitter almonds, and two ounces of sweet almonds.
Bitter almond biscuits are made in the same manner, except with this difference; that to every two ounces of bitter almonds must be added an ounce of sweet almonds.
Blanch a quarter of an ounce of bitter almonds, and beat them with a tea-spoonful of water in a marble mortar.
Blanch and pound fine, with half a gill of rose water, six ounces of sweet, and half an ounce of bitter almonds; boil a pint of milk as No.
To be made as above, omitting a quarter of a pound of sweet, and substituting a quarter of a pound of bitter almonds.
It is also formed by the oxidation of the volatile oil of bitter almonds.
I must needs here also mention the artificial oil of bitter almonds.
Oil of bitter almonds may be distinguished from nitro-benzene by the action of manganese dioxide and sulphuric acid; bitter almond oil treated in this way loses its odour, nitro-benzene is unaltered.
Its smell is exactly the same as that from the oil or essence of bitter almonds; and it is from this circumstance, under the name of "essence of mirbane," much used in the preparation of perfumes and flavouring agents.
A similar kind of water is formed by the infusion and distillation of bitter almonds.
A solution of potassium cyanide has a powerfully alkaline reaction, a smell like that of bitter almonds, peculiar to prussic acid, and acts as a most powerful poison.
Then indeed Bremner rose up and looked bewildered, and Pup, starting up, barked as furiously as if its own little black body had miraculously become the concentrated essence of all the other noisy dogs in the wide world rolled into one!
It will be a stiff breeze, I fear, to-night," said Logan.
It had been painted white at the end of the previous season, but the lower parts of the posts were found to have become green--the sea having clothed them with a soft garment of weed.
Oil of Bitter Almonds=, used as a flavouring agent, may contain (when improperly prepared) from 5 to 15 per cent.
It is a colourless liquid, feebly acid, with odour of bitter almonds.
Yellowish, very sweet; smells of bitter almonds; insoluble in water; little affected by reagents; boils at 415 deg.
The addition of a little more sugar renders it more pleasant; and 2 or 3 bitter almonds, as in the formula of the Ph.
The use of bitter almonds, as a means of lessening or retarding the effects of fermented liquors was known to antiquity, and is still common among heavy drinkers at the present day.
The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds.
Take one pound of Jordan and two ounces of bitter almonds; blanch them in cold water, and beat them very fine in a mortar, adding orange-flower and rose-water as you beat them to prevent their oiling.
Blanch two ounces of bitter almonds in cold water, and beat them extremely fine with orange-flower water and rose-water.
Wedgewood mortar, with a little rose-water and half a teaspoonful essence of bitter almonds.
When beaten to a smooth paste, stir in, to a pound of the sweet almonds, a generous tablespoonful of essence of bitter almonds; cover closely, and set away in a cold place until the morrow.
Extract of vanilla or bitter almonds, one teaspoonful.
It is the mother substance for "oil of bitter almonds," which is widely used as a flavoring extract.
It is found in large quantities in bitter almonds and in the kernels of apricots, peaches, and plums; also in the seeds of apples, etc.
Don't you know the smell of bitter almonds, and have you smelt it yet?
A large handful of peach-leaves or half an ounce of peach kernels or bitter almonds, broken in pieces.
You may flavour a quart of ice-cream with two ounces of sweet almonds and one ounce of bitter almonds, blanched and beaten in a mortar with a little rose-water to a smooth paste.
Or two ounces of sweet almonds and once ounce of bitter almonds, blanched and split into pieces.
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