TO MAKE RATAFIA DE CAFÉ
Take one-half pound of roasted coffee, ground, two quarts proof spirit, ten ounces sugar. Digest for a week.
RATAFIA DE CASSIS
Take three pounds of ripe black currants, one-quarter dram cloves, one-quarter dram cinnamon, nine pints proof spirit, one and three-quarters pounds sugar. Digest for a fortnight.
RATAFIA DES CERISES
Take four pounds morello cherries, with their kernels bruised, four pints proof spirit. Digest for a month, strain with expression, and then add three-quarters pound of sugar.
RATAFIA DE CHOOCLAT
Take one pound Curacoa cocoanuts roasted, one-half pound West India cocoanuts, roasted, one gallon proof spirit. Digest for a fortnight, strain, and then add one and one-half pounds sugar, thirty drops tincture of vanilla.
DRY OR SHARP RATAFIA
Take fifteen pounds of cherries, fifteen pounds of gooseberries, three and one-half
