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ROSSOLIS.
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•spirit of roses, four drachms; spirit of sweet balm,
four drachms; spirit of vanilla, two drachms; white
sugar bruised, five pounds. Distil in the sand-
bath the brandy and the mace to draw three pints
and a half of liqueur; melt the sugar in the water;
when done, mix the whole together, and let it
stand till clear, and then filter. Four pints of
rectified spirits will do instead of brandy: the mace
to steep in for four days, then to be added.
BOSSOLIS.
Musk roses or moss roses, eight ounces; picked
orange flowers, five ounces; bruised cinnamon,
three drachms; bruised cloves, one drachm; water,
six pints; rectified spirits, three pints; spirits of
jessamine, two ounces; loaf sugar bruised, six
pounds. Put the first five articles into the still,
and draw three pints of liqueur, in which you melt
the sugar. You then are to pour over it the spirit
of wine and the spirit of jessamine; colour the li¬
queur with cochineal, and filter it. When you
.have no orange flowers, add half an ounce spirit
of orange flowers, mix it to the jessamine, &c.