1922 Old Time Recipes Liquors Shrubs(4th edition) by Helen S Wright

y^omt JHatre Wiinm TO MAKE RATAFIA DE CAFE Take one-half pound of roasted coffee, ground, two quarts proof spirit, ten ounces sugar. Digest for a week. RATAFIA DE CASSIS Take three pounds of ripe black currants, one-quarter dram cloves, one-quarter dram cinnamon, nine pints proof spirit, one and three-quarters pounds sugar. Digest for a fortnight. RATAFIA DES CERISES Take four pounds morello cherries, with their kernels bruised, four pints proof spirit. Digest for a month, strain with expression, and then add three-quarters pound of sugar. Take cocoanuts roasted, one-half pound West India cocoa- nuts, roasted, one gallon proof spirit. Di- gest for a fortnight, strain, and then add one and one-half pounds sugar, thirty drops tincture of vanilla. DRY OR SHARP RATAFIA Take fifteen pounds of cherries, fifteen pounds of gooseberries, three and one-half 145 one pound Curacoa RATAFIA DE CHOCOLAT