Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Mix together six pounds of ripe morellas and six pounds of large black
heart cherries. Put them into a wooden bowl or tub, and with a pestle
or mallet mash them so as to crack all the stones. Mix with the
cherries three pounds of loaf-sugar, or of sugar candy broken up, and
put them into a demijohn, or into a large stone jar. Pour on two
gallons of the best double rectified whiskey. Stop the vessel closely,
and let it stand three months, shaking it every day during the first
month. At the end of the three months you may strain the liquor and
bottle it off. It improves by age.
LEMON SYRUP.
Break up into large pieces six pounds of fine loaf-sugar. Take twelve
large ripe lemons, and (without cutting them) grate the yellow rind
upon the sugar. Then, put the sugar, with the lemon gratings and two
quarts of water, into a preserving kettle, and let it dissolve. When it
is all melted, boil it till quite thick, skimming it till no more scum
rises; it will then be done. Have ready the juice of all the lemons,
and when the syrup is quite cold, stir in the lemon juice. Bottle it,
and keep it in a cool place.
It makes a delicious drink in summer, in the proportion of one third
lemon syrup and two thirds ice water.
LEMON CORDIAL.
Pare off very thin the yellow rind of a dozen large lemons; throw the
parings into a gallon of white brandy, and let them steep till next
day, or at least twelve hours. Break up four pounds of loaf-sugar into
another vessel, and squeeze upon it the juice of the lemons. Let this
too stand all night. Next day mix all together, boil two quarts of
milk, and pour it boiling hot into the other ingredients. Cover the
vessel, and let it stand eight days, stirring it daily. Then strain it
through a flannel bag till the liquid is perfectly clear. Let it stand
six weeks in a demijohn or glass jar, and then bottle it.
To make it still more clear, you may filter it through a piece of fine
muslin pinned down to the bottom of a sieve, or through blotting paper,
which must be frequently renewed. It should be white blotting paper.
ROSE CORDIAL.
Put a pound of fresh rose leaves into a tureen, with a quart of
lukewarm water. Cover the vessel, and let them infuse for twenty-four
hours. Then squeeze them through a linen bag till all the liquid is
pressed out. Put a fresh pound of rose leaves into the tureen, pour the
liquid back into it, and let it infuse again for two days. You may
repeat this till you obtain a very strong infusion. Then to a pint of
the infusion add half a pound of loaf-sugar, half a pint of white
brandy, an ounce of broken cinnamon, and an ounce of coriander seeds.
Put it into a glass jar, cover it well, and let it stand for two weeks.
Then filter it through a fine muslin or a blotting paper (which must be
white) pinned on the bottom of a sieve; and bottle it for use.
STRAWBERRY CORDIAL.
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