Orange Brandy

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (4)
Instructions (4)
  1. Pare eight oranges very thin, and steep the peels in a quart of brandy forty-eight hours in a close pitcher.
  2. Take three pints of water and three quarters of a pound of loaf sugar, boil it until it is reduced to half the quantity, then let it stand till it is cold.
  3. Mix the brandy with the sugar syrup.
  4. Let it stand fourteen days, and then bottle it.
Original Text
To make ORANGE BRANDY. PARE eight oranges very thin, and steep the peels in a quart of brandy forty-eight hours in a close pitcher, then take three pints of water and three quarters of a pound of loaf sugar, boil it until it is reduced to half the quantity, then let it stand till it is cold, then mix it with the brandy; let it stand fourteen days, and then bottle it.
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