Seville Orange Cordial

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 60 min Total: 60 min
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (7)
Cordial Base
Flavoring and Fermentation
Instructions (8)
  1. To ten gallons of water add twenty-four pounds of lump sugar.
  2. Beat the whites of six eggs very well, and mix them when the water is cold.
  3. Boil it an hour, scum it very well.
  4. Pare four dozen of the roughest and largest Seville oranges very thin, and put them into a tub.
  5. Pour the liquor on the oranges when boiling hot.
  6. When you think it is cold enough add to it three or four spoonfuls of new yeast, with the juice of the oranges, and half an ounce of cochineal beat fine, and boiled in a pint of water.
  7. Stir it all together, and let it work four days.
  8. Then put it in the casks, and in six weeks time bottle it for use.
Original Text
TO ten gallons of water add twenty-four pounds of lump ſugar, beat the whites of fix eggs very well, and mix them when the water is cold, then boil it an hour, ſcum it very well, take four dozen of the rougheſt and largeſt Seville oranges you can get, pare them very thin, put them into a tub, and put the liquor on boiling hot, and when you think it is cold enough add to it three or four ſpoonfuls of new yeſt, with the juice of the oranges, and half an ounce of cochineal beat fine, and boiled in a pint of water, ſtir it all together, and let it work four days, then put it in the caſks, and in fix weeks time bottle it for uſe.
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