French Ratafia, or incomparable Cordial Gin
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France
Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 10 ingredients
- nine quarts of brandy
- a drachm of cori-- ander seeds
- Cloves
- a pound of the choicest juniper-berries
- Cordial
- Must
- two drachms of mace
- two quarts of water
- Sugar
- Cinnamon
Method
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- This fine cordial liquor is made by infusing, in nine quarts of brandy, half a pound of the choicest juniper-berries, twa ounces a£ cinnamon, two drachms of mace, a drachm of cori-- ander seeds, and a dosen cloves, all well beaten in a mortar ;
- to which must be added four pounds and a half of sugar, die* solved oyer the fire in two quarts of water.
- The syrup, when made, is to be poured hot over the ingredients ;
- and the vessel containing them being closely stopped, exposed for six weeks to the heat of the sun, and the liquid then passed through a cotton or flannel filtering-bag, the process will be complete, and the cordial excellent.
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Cookware for this recipe
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Mortar and pestle