1925 Drinks Long & Short by Nina Toye and A H Adair

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Drinks—Long and Short

will keep for two to three weeks, of course, are delicious to eat.

The prunes.

WORMWOOD BITTERS Put three to four sprigs of wormwood into a pitcher, and pour over them a bottle of gin. Cover thepitcher and let it stand for three weeks, after which time the bitters are ready to be bottled, the wormwood having been removed. This recipe is from Bermuda,whose inhabitants, we are told,used these bittersalmostexclusively. ESSENCE OF ORANGE AND OF LEMON The rind of oranges peeled off very thin,to be put in glass jar with alcohol at 90 or 95 degrees, enough to cover the skins, but no more. Leave it at least a month, shaking occasionally, then remove the pieces of rind. It makes a pure essence of orange, extremely scented and strong. A teaspoonful would be enough to flavour a sweet, and a few drops in a glass of water with a lump ofsugar makes a very refresh ing summer drink, at a time when oranges are at their worst. Lemon rind to be treated in the same way. We are indebted for this recipe to Mr. X. Marcel Boulestin, author of "Simple French Cooking for English Homes." (Heinemann, Publishers).