1891 Drinks à La Mode by Mrs de Salis

LIQUEURS

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Orange Wine. To every ten Seville oranges put three pounds of loaf sugar ; place the required quantity in a per- fectly clean and dry cask ; squeeze the juice from the oranges, and put the pulp into a large pan and pour over it a gallon of water, and let it stand for twenty-four hours, then strain into the cask and leave for a week. Peppermint. To one gallon of simple syrup add six ounces of essence of peppermint. Pousse I'Amour. A teaspoonful of Kirschwasser, a teaspoonful of cura^oa, and half a teaspoonful of chartreuse. Raspberry Liqueur. One gallon of simple syrup, four ounces of essence of raspberry, one ounce of tartaric acid, one-eighth of an ounce of caramel, one-eighth of an ounce of carmine. Raspberry Whisky. Take four and a half quarts of raspberries, pick them, and boil them for twenty minutes with three- quarters of a pound of best loaf sugar ; skim con- stantly ; strain the liquor through a tammy and mix it with half a gallon of old Scotch whisky and a gill of strained lemon-juice. Put it into a clean E 2