Take a gallon of pale-coloured rum and half a gallon of whisky7 (or gin), a pound and a half of sweet almonds, and half a pound of bitter, blanch them, and put them into the spirit. Take nine pounds of single refined sugar, make it into a syrup, with four and a half English pints of water, and the whites of four eggs. Pour it boiling hot into the spirit. Let it stand for three weeks, shaking it very often; then strain it through a jelly-bag, let it stand a month to clear, filter the grounds through blotting paper doubled.

If you wish to have it coloured, put in one shilling's worth of cochineal pounded, when the ingredients are cold and before it is strained.

Noyau Of Beech Leaves

Two handfuls of beech-lec steeped six days in a quart of British gin. two pounds of refined loaf sugar boiled in a pint of water, skimmed, and poured off quite clear. When cold mix and bottle.