244
method of detecting, 245

Cocculus indicus, nefarious application of in the brewing of beer, 18
early law prohibiting its application, 115
brewers prosecuted for using it, 152
seizures made of at different breweries, 136
narcotic property of, to what owing, 153
extract of, application in brewing, 136

Coffee, adulteration of, 176
law in force against it, 177
grocers lately convicted of selling spurious, 176

Confectionery, adulteration of, 224
methods of detecting it, 225

Conserves, contamination of with copper, 226
should never be deposited in vessels glazed with lead, 257

Constantia, quantity of spirit which it contains, 94

Copperas, or salt of steel, publicans convicted of mixing it with their
beer, 129
seizures of, at various breweries, 136

Cream, adulteration of, and mode of detecting it, 222

Custards, flavoured with cherry laurel leaves, dangerous effects from
it, 231

Cyder, melancholy catastrophe of persons drinking such as was
contaminated with lead, 254

E

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

F

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

G

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

H

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 as