Cordial Cherry Water

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.
Status
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Ingredients (8)
Instructions (12)
  1. Stone the cherries.
  2. Bruise the cinnamon and nutmegs.
  3. Steep the cherries and spice in the claret.
  4. Add rosemary, balm, and sweet marjoram to the mixture.
  5. Let the mixture steep in an earthen pot for twenty-four hours.
  6. As you put the mixture into the alembic to distil, bruise the cherries with your hands.
  7. Make a gentle fire under the alembic.
  8. Distil by slow degrees.
  9. Mix the waters as desired once all have been drawn.
  10. Sweeten the mixture with loaf sugar.
  11. Strain the mixture into another glass vessel.
  12. Stop the vessel close to prevent spirits from escaping.
Original Text
Cordial Cherry Water. Nine pounds of the best red cherries, nine pints of claret, eight ounces of cinnamon, three ounces of nutmegs; bruise[371] your spice, stone your cherries, and steep them in the wine; then add to them half a handful of rosemary, half a handful of balm, and one quarter of a handful of sweet marjoram. Let them steep in an earthen pot twenty-four hours, and, as you put them into the alembic to distil them, bruise them with your hands; make a gentle fire under them, and distil by slow degrees. You may mix the waters at your pleasure when you have drawn them all. Sweeten it with loaf sugar; then strain it into another glass vessel, and stop it close that the spirits may not escape.
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