TAKE cubebs, cardamums, gillingal, cloves, mace, nutmegs, and cinnamon

The housekeeper's instructor; or, uni... · William Augustus Henderson · 1791
Source
The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook
Yield
1.0 gallon
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (24)
spices
juices
herbs and flowers
seeds
liquids
sweetener
Instructions (6)
  1. Bruise the spices and seeds small.
  2. Steep the bruised spices and seeds, with the herbs and flowers, in the juices, waters, sack, white wine, and brandy, all night.
  3. In the morning distill it in a common still parted up.
  4. From this quantity you may draw off a gallon at least.
  5. Sweeten it to your taste with sugar-candy.
  6. Bottle it up, and keep it in a cool place.
Original Text
TAKE cubebs, cardamums, gillingal, cloves, mace, nutmegs, and cinnamon, of each two drachms, and bruise them small. Then take a pint of the juice of celendine, half a pint of the juice of spearmint, and the same quantity of the juice of balm, flowers of melilot, cowslip, rosemary, borrage, bugloss, and marigolds, of each three drachms; seeds of fennel, coriander, and caraway, of each two drachms; two quarts of the best sack, and a quart of white wine brandy; the strongest angelica water, and rose-water, of each a pint. Bruise the spices and seeds, and steep them, with the herbs and flowers, in the juices, waters, sack, white wine, and brandy, all night. In the morning distill it in a common still parted up, and from this quantity you may draw off a gallon at least. Sweeten it to your taste with sugar-candy, then bottle it up, and keep it in a cool place.
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