1891 Drinks à La Mode by Mrs de Salis

DRINKS A LA MODE

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jar upon half an ounce of cloves, a small piece of cinnamon, and an ounce of crushed sugar candy ; stir all well together, put on the cover, and resin all over ; let the jar stand for six months in a warm cellar, then strain and filter till perfectly clear and bright.

Rosolio.

Italian Drink.

Put into a pint of liquid sunshine rum the peel of four oranges, and put it into a tightly corked bottle. After eight days put four lemons cut in slices into half a pint of water, which must boil over the fire for a quarter of an hour ; then take out the lemons and pour the boiling liquid into a basin into which two ounces of white lump sugar has been put, and let it dissolve, when it will have become a rich syrup, to which, when it cools, the rum must be added. Mix well and filter through fine filtering-paper. Sportsman's Drink. Boil half an ounce of hops and half an ounce of bruised ginger in a gallon and a half of water for twenty-five minutes ; add a pound of best brown sugar, and boil ten minutes more, then strain and bottle while hot. It will be ready for drinking when cold. Keep in a cool place. Usquebaugh Cordial. Stone a pound of the best raisins, rub the zest of an orange on some pieces of loaf sugar ; bruise the raisins in a mortar with a quarter of an ounce