Syrup of Clove Gilliflowers

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
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The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (4)
Instructions (4)
  1. Clip your gilliflowers, sprinkle them with fair water, put them into an earthen pot, stop it up very close, set it in a kettle of water, and let it boil for two hours.
  2. Strain out the juice.
  3. Put a pound and a half of sugar to a pint of juice, put it into a skillet, set it on the fire, keep it stirring till the sugar is all melted, but let it not boil.
  4. Let it by to cool, and put it into bottles.
Original Text
To make Syrup of Clove Gilliflowers. CLIP your gilliflowers, sprinkle them with fair water, put them into an earthen pot, stop it up very close, set it in a kettle of water, and let it boil for two hours; then strain out the juice, put a pound and a half of sugar to a pint of juice, put it into a skillet, set it on the fire, keep it stirring till the sugar is all melted, but let it not boil, then let it by to cool, and put it into bottles.
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