Vegetable Essences (No. 417)

The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's ... · Kitchiner, William · 1817
Source
The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual
Status
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Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (7)
For combining essential oils with spirit of wine
For steeping herbs
Instructions (5)
  1. Combine the essential oils of sweet and savoury herbs with rectified spirit of wine, in the proportion of one drachm of the former to two ounces of the latter.
  2. Alternatively, pick the leaves of the herbs, and lay them for a couple of hours in a warm place to dry.
  3. Fill a large-mouthed bottle with the dried leaves.
  4. Pour on the leaves wine, brandy, proof spirit, or vinegar.
  5. Let the mixture steep for fourteen days.
Original Text
Vegetable Essences.—(No. 417*.) The flavour of the various sweet and savoury herbs may be obtained by combining their essential oils with rectified spirit of wine, in the proportion of one drachm of the former to two ounces of the latter, or by picking the leaves, and laying them for a couple of hours in a warm place to dry, and then filling a large-mouthed bottle with them, and pouring on them wine, brandy, proof spirit, or vinegar, and letting them steep for fourteen days.
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