1868 The complete Practical Distiller

IMPERIAL RATAFIA.

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sliced, Ij pound; cinnamon, half a pound; nutmegs, 3 ounces; cloves and mace, of each IJ ounce; liquorice, 2 pounds ; saffron, 4 ounces. Bruise the spices, slice the liquorice, and pull the saffron in pieces ; digest these in- gredients eight days in 10 gallons of proof-spirit, in a vessel close stopped. Then filter the liquor, and add to it 2 gallons of canary wine and half an ounce of the tinc- ture of verdigris.

PROCESS OF MAKING NECTAR.

This may be made with 15 gallons of the "imperial ratafia,'' a quarter of an ounce of cassia oil, and an equal quantity of the oil of caraway seeds, dissolved in half a pint of spirits of wine, and made up with orange wine, so as to fill up the cask. This process is for making 20 gallons. Sweeten, if wanted, by adding a small lump of sugar in the glass.

IMPERIAL RATAFIA.

Take three-quarters of a pound of the kernels of peaches, nectarines, and apricots, bruised; 8 pounds of bitter almonds, bruised ; half a gallon of rectified spirits of wine, in which dissolve half an ounce of compound es- sence of ambergris; 12 gallons of pure molasses spirit, 13-^