Crême de Macarons. Prep. 1. From cloves, cinnamon, and mace, of each (bruised) 1 dr.; bitter almonds (blanched and beaten to a paste), 7 oz.; spirit (17 u. p.), 1 gall.; digest a week, filter, and add of white sugar, 6 lbs., dissolve in pure water, 2 quarts.
2. Clean spirit (at 24 u. p., sp. gr. ·945), 2 galls.; bitter almonds, 3⁄4 lb.; cloves, cinnamon, and mace, of each in coarse powder, 11⁄2 dr.; infuse for 10 days, filter, and add of white sugar, 8 lbs.; dissolved in pure water, 1 gall.; lastly, give the liqueur a violet tint with infusion or tincture of litmus and cochineal. An agreeable, nutty-flavoured cordial, but, from containing so much bitter almonds, should be only drank in small quantities at a time. The
English use only one half the above quantity of almonds.
Crême de Naphe. Prep. From sweetened spirit (60 u. p.) containing 31⁄2 lbs. of sugar per gall., 7 quarts; orange-flower water (foreign), 1 quart. Delicious.
Crême de Noyeau. See Noyeau.
Crême d’Orange. Prep. From oranges, (sliced), 3 dozen; rectified spirit, 2 galls.; digest for 14 days; add, of lump sugar, 28 lbs. (previously dissolved in water, 41⁄2 galls.); tincture of saffron, 11⁄2 fl. oz.; and orange-flower water, 2 quarts.
Crême de Portugal. Flavoured with lemon, to which a little oil of bitter almonds is added.
Curaçao. Prep. From sweetened spirit (at 56 u. p.), containing 31⁄2 lbs. of sugar per gall., flavoured with a tincture made by digesting the ‘oleo-saccharum’ prepared from Seville oranges, 9 in number; cinnamon, 1 dr.; and mace, 3⁄4 dr., in rectified spirit, 1 pint. It is coloured by digesting in it for a week or 10 days Brazil-wood (in powder), 1 oz., and afterwards mellowing the colour with burnt sugar, q. s.
Delight of the Mandarins. From spirit (22 u. p.), 1 gall.; pure soft water, 1⁄2 gall.; white sugar (crushed small), 41⁄2 lbs.; Chinese aniseed and ambrette or musk seed, of each (bruised) 1⁄2 oz.; safflower, 1⁄4 oz.; digested together in a carboy or stone bottle capable of holding double, and agitated well every day for a fortnight.
Eau de Cedrat. Syn. Cedrat water. As CRÊME DE CEDRAT, but using less sugar.