Ratafia Drops
From A treatise of domestic medicine, intended for families (1824).
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From A treatise of domestic medicine, intended for families (1824), printed page 92, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/2547006R.nlm.nih.gov
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Ingredients
- four oz. of bitter
- two oz. of sweet almonds
- a pound of sugar sifted
- two eggs
Method
- Blanch and heat in a mortar four oz.
- of bitter, and two oz.
- of sweet almonds, with a little of a pound of sugar sifted, and add the remainder of the sugar, and the whites of two eggs, making a paste;
- of which put little balls, the size of a nutmeg, on wafer-paper, and bake gently on tin plates.