1896 Fancy Drinks and Popular Beverages by the Only William

LIQUORS AND RATAFIAS.

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308. banilla 1Iiqnor. Infuse two and a half sticks of vanilla in four quarts of brandy a fortnight; refine two pounds of sugar in four quarts of water to syrup, add the liquor; mix well over a slow fire, filter, and bottle. 309. :.lnoilJer. Cut four sticks of vanilla into very small pieces, put them in a bottle with three quarts of best brandy; Jet infuse a fortnight, shake daily, add two pounds of refined sugar, let the liquor stand a few days, color slightly red with cochineal-tincture, and bottle. 310. besµctro. An Italian cordial. One-fourth of an ounce of angelica seeds, three-fourths of an ounce of coriander, one-fourth of an ounce of fennel, one-fourth of an ounce of anise, the juice and the thin peel of two lemons, and one pound of sugar are infused in two quarts of brandy five or six days, in a warm place; filter and bottle. 311. lllalnut iiqnor. One pound of green walnuts gathered at the end of June or beginning of July, is cut in small pieces, and in a jug or a glass jar infused in two and a half quarts of fine brandy with one– eighth ounce of pulverized cinnamon, and as much of cloves, from six to eight weeks; cork well, and shake daily. After this time filter the infusion, add syrup of one pound of sugar and one quart of water: filter again and bottle. 312. :.lnot~er. Infuse one pound of cut green walnuts in two quarts of fine cognac, in the sun, a fortnight; filter into another bottle, add half an ounce of cinnamon, and one-fourth of an ounce of roughly pulverized cloves; let it stand another week in the sun; add a syrup of three-fourths of a pound of sugar and one pint of water; mix well, filter, and bottle; after half a year it is ready for use,