Black Cherry Water

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (10)
For the water
Instructions (4)
  1. Take six pounds of black cherries, and bruise them small.
  2. Then put to them the tops of rosemary, sweet-marjoram, spear-mint, angelica, balm, marygold flowers, of each a handful, lily of valley one ounce, aniseed and sweet fennel-seeds, of each half an ounce bruised.
  3. Put the herbs small.
  4. Mix all together, and distil them off in a cold still.
Original Text
To make Black Cherry Water. TAKE six pounds of black cherries, and bruise them small; then put to them the tops of rosemary, sweet-marjoram, spear-mint, angelica, balm, marygold flowers, of each a handful, lily of valley one ounce, aniseed and sweet fennel-seeds, of each half an ounce bruised, put the herbs small, mix all together, and distil them off in a cold still.
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