1602. Ratafia Without Sugar Or Syrup

Press the juice from some cherries into a pan, and leave it a quarter of an hour; then put it in a large bottle with the kernels, and also some apricot kernels: to this add, if you wish the ratafia to be a deep colour, the juice of two or three pounds of black cherries. Put to your juice half or a third of its quantity of best brandy, then bottle it, and when the fermentation has ceased cork the bottles. If the air is excluded, this ratafia will keep for many years.

1603. Shrub

To a gallon of rum add a quart of Seville orange juice, with three pounds of lump sugar, and a handful of the peel pared extremely thin; let it stand in a cask for three months, then filter it through a cloth and bottle it.

1604. Shrub, Another Receipt

Strain a quart of orange juice, put to it two pounds of lump sugar, four quarts and one pint of rum; put half the peels of the oranges into the rum, let it stand one night, then mix the rum with the orange juice and the sugar, and put it into a vessel which has a spigot; shake it four or five times daily until the sugar is all dissolved; when it is clear, which may be in about a fortnight, bottle it for use. If the oranges are very ripe, a pound and a half of sugar will be enough.

1605. Sherbet

That usually sold for this compound is composed of tartaric or citric acid, carbonate of soda, and finely powdered loaf sugar flavoured with some essential oil, such as lemon or orange in the following proportions: - Three ounces and a half of soda, two ounces and a half of tartaric acid, and twelve ounces of finely powdered loaf sugar, mixed well in a mortar with sufficient essential oil to flavour it, the whole is then most intimately mixed together and put into bottles to be kept close stopped for use, two or three tea-spoonfuls are sufficient for half a pint of water.

1606. Creme Of Vanilla

Dissolve over the fire two pounds ten ounces of broken sugar in three pints of purified river water; when it is boiled up once, pour it into a jar on three drachms of vanilla cut in pieces, and half a grain of amber. "When quite cold add three pints of good brandy, cover the vessel, and when it has infused six days colour it with a little prepared cochineal;. filter, and bottle the liquor. Cork the bottles tight, and seal the corks.

1607. Vespetro

Take half a pound of each of the following seeds: - angelica, coriander, fennel, and carraway, the rinds of four lemons, and as many oranges, infuse all these in two gallons and a half of the best brandy, close the vessel hermetically. Five days' time, distil it in the bain marie alembic, and draw from the above quantity five quarts of liquor. Dissolve seven pounds of sugar in a gallon of pure river water; add this syrup to the liquor, filter, and bottle it.

1608. Wholesome Beverage

From half a pint to a pint of sweet milk boiled, to which is added a tea-spoonful of curry powder and sugar to taste; drunk warm it will be found a grateful beverage for those of weak bowels, and who may require to go abroad on very cold raw mornings before breakfast, and will be much better, nay entirely supersede, the use of ardent spirits.