1937 Café Royal Cocktail Book Coronation Edition

GLOSSARY PEYCHAUD BITTERS. —An aromatic bitters manu- factured in America from the original recipe. Red in colour. PIMENTO DRAM. —A liqueur made by steeping green and ripe Pimento berries in rum. Dark red in colour. PRUNELLE. —A liqueur, pale green in colour and with the flavour of sloes or plums. PRUNELLE DE BOURGOGNE.— A French liqueur possessing valuable digestive properties. PURL. —An old fashioned winter drink. It used to be made up of a mixture of Ale and Beer with Gin and Bitters. QUETSCH. —A liqueur manufactured in France, the colour of gin, with a flavour of plums. QUINADO, TONIC WINE.— Wine flavoured with quinine. RABINOWKA. —A pink liqueur, dry or sweet, flavoured with rowanberry. RASPAIL. — A liqueur possessing valuable digestive properties. RASPBERRY BRANDY.— A liqueur Brandy flavoured with raspberry, dark reddish brown in colour. RATAFIA. —A liqueur flavoured with almonds or the kernels of peaches or cherries. RUM. —A spirit distilled from the fermented sugar cane juice and molasses. Various kinds have different colours, the most usual are white or brown. SAKI. —Spirit distilled from rice. SANSILVESTRO.— A pale green liqueur distilled by the Aurum distillery and well known in Italy as Centrebe (Hundred Herbs). SCHNAPPS. —Originally made in Schiedan. The term Schnapps is used in Europe to denote spirits of all descriptions, but in England it means a Gin manufactured in Holland.