Raisin and Orange Cordial

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (5)
for the cordial base
for the syrup
Instructions (14)
  1. Chop the raisins small.
  2. Pare ten of the Seville oranges as thin as for preserving.
  3. Boil about eight gallons of soft water till a third part be consumed.
  4. Let the boiled water cool a little.
  5. Put five gallons of the hot water upon the raisins and orange-peel.
  6. Stir it well together, cover it up, and when it is cold let it stand five days, stirring it up once or twice a day.
  7. Press it through a hair-sieve, and with it spoon press it as dry as you can.
  8. Put it up in a runlet or cask.
  9. Add the rinds of the other ten oranges, cut as thin as the first.
  10. Make a syrup of the juice of the twenty oranges with a pound of white sugar.
  11. The syrup must be made the day before you tun it up.
  12. Stir the syrup well together, and stop it close.
  13. Let it stand two months to clear.
  14. Bottle it up.
Original Text
TAKE thirty pounds of new Malaga raisins picked clean, chop them small, you must have twenty large Seville oranges, ten of them you must pare as thin as for preserving; boil about eight gallons of soft water till a third part be consumed, let it cool a little, then put five gallons of it hot upon your raisins and orange-peel, stir it well together, cover it up, and when it is cold let it stand five days, stirring it up once or twice a day, then press it thro' a hair-sieve, and with it spoon press it as dry as you can, put it up in a runlet or cask, and put to it the rinds of the other ten oranges, cut as thin as the first; then make a syrup of the juice of the twenty oranges, with a pound of white sugar; it must be made the day before you tun it up, stir it well together, and stop it close; let it stand two months to clear, then bottle it up. It will keep three years, and it is better for keeping.
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