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Mr Hornby on the Distillation of Spirits from Carrots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Extract

We have examined the sample of spirits, which was sent by Dr Hunter of York to the Royal Society, and we have read the account of the experiment on the sermentation and distillation of carrots by which the said spirit was produced. The experiment was made by Mr Thomas Hornby, druggist in York, with one ton and eight stone of carrots, which, after being exposed to the air a few days to dry, weighed 160 stone, and measured 42 bushels; they were washed, topped and tailed, by which they lost in weight 11 stone, and in measure seven bushels; being then cut, they were boiled with the proportion of 24 gallons of water to one third of the above quantity of carrots, until the whole was reduced to a tender pulp, which was done in three hours boiling.

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History of the Society
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1790

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