Angelica Water

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
Status
success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (2)
to sweeten
Instructions (7)
  1. Wash about eight handfuls of the leaves, and cut them, and lay them on a table to dry.
  2. When they are dry put them into an earthen pot, and put to them four quarts of strong wine-lees.
  3. Let it lay twenty-four hours, but stir it twice in the time.
  4. Then put it into a warm still or an alembeck, and draw it off.
  5. Cover your bottles with a paper, and prick holes in it; so let it stand two or three days.
  6. Then mingle it all together, and sweeten it.
  7. And when it is settled, bottle it up, and stop it close.
Original Text
To make Angelica Water. Wash about eight handfuls of the leaves, and cut them, and lay them on a table to dry; when they are dry put them into an earthen pot, and put to them four quarts of strong wine-lees; let it lay twenty-four hours, but stir it twice in the time; then put it into a warm still or an alembeck, and draw it off; cover your bottles with a paper, and prick holes in it; so let it stand two or three days; then mingle it all together, and sweeten it; and when it is settled, bottle it up, and stop it close.
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