SC - Christmas Dinner and Gifts/Fig Brandy

[Decker, Terry D.]

A quick check says ratafia is French, probably of West Indian Creole origin.
So I would say it is a Caribbean connection, rather than a Spanish one.

Bear 

> 	Ratafia!  Ugh, what a wonderful example of a medicinal that never
> should
> have been used as a beverage!  A lady made some for my late husband (it
> outlasted him, but was not the cause...) and it would cure what ails you,
> if just to not have to drink any more of it.  I'm glad to know there is a
> relatively period recipe for it, but I was under the impression it was a
> Spanish brew, probably because the lady who made it for us was Cuban.  
> Christianna
> 
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