1896 Fancy Drinks and Poplular Beverages by the only William (paper cover)

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LIQUORS AND RATAFIAS.

257. <.!Ittra~ao. This famous liquor is manufactured best in Amsterdam by infusing cura9ao peel in very good brandy that has been sweet– ened with sugar syrup. The cura9ao fruit is a species of the bitter orange, that grows mainly in Cura9ao, one of the Lesser Antilles, north of Venezuela, and the greatest Dutch colony in the West Indies. 258. <.!Inrrant lllatafia. Fill into a large stone pot or jar four quarts of good brandy, two quarts of currant-juice-you obtain this juice by placing the pot with the currants within a larger vessel partly filled with water, which is heated until the currants in the smaller pot burst-add three pounds of sugar, a stick of cinnamon, some cloves; let it stand four weeks; stir daily; filter through flannel, and bottle. 259. <.!Iurrant .fildlJ.cglin. The juice of eight quarts of currants is mixed with twenty quarts of boiling. water in which eight pounds of honey are dis– solved; add one ounce of cremor tartari; stir well for a quarter of an hour; when the fermentation is over and the liquid is clear, add one quart of brandy; bottle at once, fasten the corks with wire, and place the bottles in the cellar; you may use the bever- age after six weeks. -· 260.