Aqua Mirabilis, a very fine Cordial

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.
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Ingredients (14)
Instructions (6)
  1. Bruise the melilot flowers, cardamom seeds, cubebs, galingale, nutmeg, cloves, mace, and ginger thoroughly in a mortar.
  2. Mix the bruised spices with the sack, Madeira, spirit of wine, and juice of celandine leaves.
  3. Let it stand all night in the still, closely stopped with rye paste.
  4. Next morning make a slow fire in the still.
  5. While it is distilling, keep a wet cloth about the neck of the still.
  6. Put so much white sugar-candy as you think fit into the glass where it drops.
Original Text
Aqua Mirabilis, a very fine Cordial. Three pints of sack, three pints of Madeira, one quart of spirit of wine, one quart of juice of celandine leaves, of melilot flowers, cardamom seeds, cubebs, galingale, nutmeg, cloves, mace, ginger, two drachms of each; bruise them thoroughly in a mortar, and mix them with the wine and spirits. Let it stand all night in the still, closely stopped with rye paste; next morning make a slow fire in the still, and while it is distilling keep a wet cloth about the neck of the still. Put so much white sugar-candy as you think fit into the glass where it drops.
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