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Curaçoa

Ingredients

• dried orange-peel
• 1 quart of the strongest and clearest rectified spirit
• 1 pound of the best loaf-sugar
• white of an egg

Instructions

Pound as much dried orange-peel as will make six ounces when done; the peel of fresh shaddock will be still better; or you may substitute six drachms of the oil of orange-peel. Put it into a the rectified spirit; shake it, let it infuse for a fortnight, and strain it. Then make a syrup by dissolving loaf-sugar in a pint of cold water, adding to it the beaten white, and boiling and skimming it till the scum ceases to rise. Mix the syrup with the strained liquor. Let it stand till next day, and then filter it through white blotting paper fastened to the bottom of a sieve. Curaçoa is a great improvement to punch; also a table-spoonful of it in a tumbler of water makes a very refreshing summer drink.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).