Home-Made Noyeau

Ingredients

• 2 oz bitter almonds
• 1 oz sweet ditto
• 1 lb loaf sugar
• the rinds of 3 lemons
• 1 quart Irish whiskey or gin
• 1 tablespoonful clarified honey
• 4 pint new milk

Instructions

1. Blanch and pound the almonds, and mix with them the sugar, which should also be pounded.
2. Boil the milk;
3. let it stand till quite cold;
4. then mix all the ingredients together, and let them remain for 10 days, shaking them every day.
5. Filter the mixture through blotting-paper, bottle off for use in small bottles, and seal the corks down.
6. This will be found useful for flavouring many sweet dishes.