Nowadays dried fruits not any more only obligatory attribute of tea ceremonies.
Dishes with addition of alcoholic drinks even more often fill the menu of expensive restaurants, "an especial highlight" is the flavouring combination of alcohol and dried fruits. That's it such recipe is brought to your attention.
Lemon, fig and dates carefully to wash up, at dates to take stones. A lemon to cut on halves and to squeeze out of them juice, and from the remained peel of a lemon accurately knife to remove the top painted layer (dried peel). Nuts to touch and break on small slices. In suitable glass capacity to lay a fig, dates, slices of nuts, spices, a lemon dried peel, sugar and, to add from above a lemon juice, to fill in with cognac or brandy. To close a cover and to sustain in a dark place about 3 weeks.
For preparation the dish will be required:
20 dried dates and figs, 8 spoons of drilled nuts (any), 800 ml of cognac or brandy, 1 lemon, cinnamon, vanillin.