Sham Madeira

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
Time
Cook: 30 min Total: 30 min
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (7)
Madeira base
Fermentation starter
Aging ingredients
Instructions (7)
  1. Boil the sugar and water for half an hour.
  2. Skim it clean.
  3. When cool, add one quart of ale (out of the vat) to every gallon of the mixture.
  4. Let it work well in the tub for a day or two.
  5. Then put it in the barrel with the sugar-candy, raisins, brandy, and isinglass.
  6. When it has done fermenting, bung it down close.
  7. Let it stand one year.
Original Text
Sham Madeira. Take thirty pounds of coarse sugar to ten gallons of water; boil it half an hour; skim it clean, and, when cool, put to every gallon one quart of ale, out of the vat; let it work well in the tub a day or two. Then put it in the barrel, with one pound of sugar-candy, six pounds of raisins, one quart of brandy, and two ounces of isinglass. When it has done fermenting, bung it down close, and let it stand one year.
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