>ed my appeal for information >about "alembic". For those who may be >interested, try a visit to http://www.hogacompany.com/distillers.htm > >I don't suppose I'll discover whether the "alembick" I found being bequeathed in >a will was used for distilling liquor >or potions of some sort or indeed what it really looked like. sort of pear drop shap, with the top bent over and pulled out to a narrow neck - with heat applied to the base of the pear. the distillate was formed in the upper curve and dripped down to a receiving flask or vessel. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

You're talking glass here, aren't you? Glass was at a premium the further back you go. Have you any idea of what a non glass alembic may have looked like? Don't people do things a bit like that with tin cans or metal drums? Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eve McLaughlin" <eve@varneys.demon.co.uk> To: <OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 1:11 PM Subject: Re: [OEL] Alembick > > >ed my appeal for information > >about "alembic". For those who may be > >interested, try a visit to http://www.hogacompany.com/distillers.htm > > > >I don't suppose I'll discover whether the "alembick" I found being bequeathed in > >a will was used for distilling liquor > >or potions of some sort or indeed what it really looked like. > sort of pear drop shap, with the top bent over and pulled out to a > narrow neck - with heat applied to the base of the pear. the distillate > was formed in the upper curve and dripped down to a receiving flask or > vessel. > > -- > Eve McLaughlin > > Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians > Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society > > > ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== > OLD-ENGLISH Web Page > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > >