To distill ELDER-FLOWER WATER

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (2)
for the elder-flower water
Instructions (4)
  1. Get your elder-flowers when they are in full bloom, shake the blossoms off.
  2. To every peck of flowers put one quart of water, and let them steep in it all night.
  3. Then put them in a cold still, and take care that your water comes cold off the still, and it will be very clear.
  4. Draw it no longer than your liquor is good, then put it into bottles, and cork it in two or three days, and it will keep a year.
Original Text
To distill ELDER-FLOWER WATER. GET your elder-flowers when they are in full bloom, shake the blossoms off, and to every peck of flowers put one quart of water, and let them steep in it all night; then put them in a cold still, and take care that your water comes cold off the still, and it will be very clear, and draw it no longer than your liquor is good, then put it into bottles, and cork it in two or three days, and it will keep a year.
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