Put a quart of ripe red raspberries in a bowl; pour on them a quart of strong well flavoured vinegar; let them stand twenty-four hours, strain them through a bag, put this liquid on another quart of fresh raspberries, which strain in the same manner; and then on a third quart: when this last is prepared, make it very sweet with pounded loaf sugar; refine and bottle it. It is a delicious beverage mixed with iced water.
The Virginia Housewife (1860).