1928 Giggle Water by Charles S Warnock

28 GIGGLE WATER sugar. Let the whole stand lO days or a fortnight. Then draw off, and add to the clear noyau as much rose-water as will make up to 2 gallons.

43. RATAFIA This is a liquor prepared from different kinds of fruits, and is of different colors, according to the fruits made use of. These fruits should be gathered when in their greatest perfection, and the largest and most beautiful of them chosen for the purpose. The following is the method for making red ratafia, fine and soft: Take 12 pounds of the black-heart cherries, 2 pounds black cherries, pounds raspberries, pounds strawberries. Pick the fruit from their stalks, and bruise them, in which state let them continue 12 hours; then press out the juice, and to every pint of it add pound of sugar. When the sugar is dissolved, run the whole through the filtering- bag, and add to it 3 pints of proof spirit. Then take 2 ounces of cinnamon, 2 ounces mace, i dram cloves. Bruise these spices, put them into an alembic with Yt. gallon of proof spirit and i quart of water, and draw off a gallon with a brisk fire. Add as much of the spicy spirit to the red ratafia as will render it agreeable; about Ya is the usual proportion.

44. RATAFIA NO. 2 Ratafia may be made with the juice of any fruit. Take 6 quarts cherry juice and 2 pounds sugar, which you dis-