1872 Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks (Mixellany)

78 Syrups soms of the white thorn, free from husks ; fill up with pale brandy; at the proper time add a few apricot kernels ; strain in a fortnight; sweeten to taste. Ratafia a la Violette. —Bruise 2 drachms of Florentine orris root; add 1 oz. of archel, 41bs. of sugar, and 2 pints of spirits of wine ; in six weeks strain. Orange Ratafia. —Into a jar put 9 mandarin or sweet oranges, a little cinnamon and coriander seed ; add 2 quarts of brandy; in three months strain and bottle. Rose Cordial. —Take 4 drops tinct. of musk, 2 drops oil of orange, 5 drops oil of roses; dissolve in 5 pints of gin; add | gallon clear syrup; colour with tincture of cochineal. Rosolio. —To 12 drops essence of vanilla, 2 drops oil of roses, 5 drops essence of amber, dissolved in 1 quart of alcohol, add clear syrup of 21bs. of sugar in |- gallon of water ; colour with cochineal. Sighs of Love. —Make a syrup of 31bs. of sugar to \ gallon of water; add 1 pint of rose-water, 1 quart of rectified spirit, and 1 drop essence of ambergris. Shrub. —Infuse in 1 gallon of rum or brandy the peels of 3 oranges and 3 lemons, and 1 quart of lemon juice ; let this digest two months ; then add some syrup and water; in four days strain clear.