1871 The Gentleman's Table Guide by E Ricket and C Thomas

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The Gentleman's Table Guide.

This is a most excellent stomacliic when taken pure in small quantities, or it may be diluted with water. Make this in March. Gin substituted for brandy is very good—orange gin. No. 57.-KIRSCHWASSER. SAKE half pint pale Kentish cherry juice, 4 lbs. bruised cherry stones, 1 quart fine old Hollands; macerate for 21 days; filter No. 58.-CREME DE NOYEAU. SAKE 4 ounces of apricots, 4 ounces of . _ peaches, 2 ounces prune kernels, 3 quarts ^ proof brandy, very pale, 2 lbs. white sugar candy dissolved in 1 quart of distilled water; add 1 giU of orange-flower water; filter as above. No. 59.-T0 MAKE ONE GALLON OF LOVAGE. |ALF drachm of the oil of nutmeg, half drachm of the oil of cassia, 1 scruple of the oil of carraway in a gill of rectified spirits, shake it well up in a bottle, add 1 quart more spirits, 60 o.p.; dissolve 2 lbs. of loaf sugar in distilled water to make quantity; filter as above. tbi'ougb a jelly bag.