1928 Giggle Water by Charles S Warnock

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GIGGLE WATER 4. CARAWAY BRANDY

Steepone ounce of caraway-seed and six ounces of loaf sugar with one quart of brandy. Let it stand nine days and then draw off.

5. BLACK CHERRY BRANDY Stone two pounds of black cherries and put on them one quart of brandy. Bruise the stones in a mortar, and then add them to the brandy. Cover them close and let them stand a month or six weeks. Then pour it clear from the sediment and bottle it. Morello cherries, managed in this way, make a fine cordial. 6. CHERRY BRANDY For this purpose use either morello cherries or small black cherries. Pick them from the stalks; fill the bottles nearly up to the necks, then fill up with brandy (some people use whiskey, gin, or spirit distilled from the lees of the wine.) In three weeks or a month strain off the spirit; to each quart add onepound of loaf sugar clarified, and flavor with tincture of cinnamon or cloves.

7. ORANGE BRANDY Put the chips of six Seville oranges in one quart of brandy, and let them steep a fortnight in a stone bottle close stopped. Boil two and two-thirds pints of spring