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Ratafia

Ingredients

• 1 pound of shelled bitter almonds
• 1 ounce of nutmegs
• 1 pound of fine loaf-sugar
• 1 grain (apothecaries' weight) of ambergris
• 1 gallon of white brandy or proof spirit

Instructions

Pound in a mortar, and mix together almonds, nutmegs, loaf-sugar, and ambergris. Infuse these ingredients for a week in the white brandy or proof spirit. Then filter it, and bottle it for use.

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Source

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