Cordial Water

The housekeeper's instructor; or, uni... · William Augustus Henderson · 1791
Source
The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (9)
Herbs
Other Ingredients
Liquid Base
Instructions (3)
  1. Mix the wormwood, horehound, feverfew, lavender-cotton, rice, peppermint, and Seville orange peel well together.
  2. Steep them all night in red wine, or the bottoms of strong beer.
  3. Then distill them pretty quick in a hot still.
Original Text
Cordial Water. TAKE of wormwood, horehound, feverfew, and lavender-cotton, each three handfuls; of rice, pepper- mint, and Seville orange peel, each one handful. Mix them well together, and steep them all night in red wine, or the bottoms of strong beer. Then distill them pretty quick in a hot still, and it will be a fine cordial to take as bitters.
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