Though with FlyFish's recipe you still need the Starter to add all that stuff to.
I used to leave mine a lot longer than the seven or ten or fourteen days ... dependent on how often we used it.
Notice how each is different re number of days? It really was just a matter of how it got varied from one person to the next.
And too, I totally played around with the fruit, depending on what I had. Maraschinos were really nice, as they gave a nice red glow to the mix.
QltingLady ... Interesting ... my first receipt of it was in 1974 too!