Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Hull a sufficient quantity of ripe strawberries, and squeeze them
through a linen bag. To each quart of the juice allow a pint of white
brandy, and half a pound of powdered loaf-sugar. Put the liquid into a
glass jar or a demijohn, and let it stand a fortnight. Then filter it
through a sieve, to the bottom of which a piece of fine muslin or
blotting paper has been fastened; and afterwards bottle it,
RASPBERRY CORDIAL.
May be made in the above manner.
QUINCE CORDIAL.
Take the finest and ripest quinces you can procure, wipe them clean,
and cut out all the defective parts. Then grate them into a tureen or
some other large vessel, leaving out the seeds and cores. Let the
grated pulp remain covered in the tureen for twenty-four hours. Then,
squeeze it through a jelly-bag or cloth. To six quarts of the juice
allow a quart of cold water, three pounds of loaf-sugar, (broken up,)
and a quart of white brandy. Mix the whole well together, and put it
into a stone jar. Have ready three very small flannel or thick muslin
bags, (not larger than two inches square,) fill one with grated nutmeg,
another with powdered mace, and the third with powdered cloves; and pat
them, into the jar that the spice may flavour the liquor without mixing
with it. Leave the jar uncorked for a few days; reserving some of the
liquor to replace that which may flow over in the fermentation.
Whenever it has done working, bottle it off, but do not use it for six
months. If not sufficiently bright and clear, filter it through fine
muslin, pinned round the bottom of a sieve, or through a white blotting
paper fastened in the same manner.
PEACH CORDIAL.
Take the ripest and most juicy free-stone peaches you can procure. Cut
them from the stones, and quarter them without paring. Crack the
stones, and extract the kernels, which must be blanched and slightly
pounded. Put the peaches into a large stone jar in layers, alternately
with layers of the kernels, and of powdered loaf-sugar. When the jar is
three parts full of the peaches, kernels, and sugar, fill it up with
white brandy. Set the Jar in a large pan, and leave it uncovered for
three or four days, in case of its fermenting and flowing over at the
top. Fill up what is thus wasted with more brandy, and then close the
jar tightly. Let it stand, five or six months; then filter it, and
bottle it for use.
Cherry, apricot, and plum cordial may be made in the above manner;
adding always the kernels.
ANNISEED CORDIAL.
Melt a pound of loaf-sugar in two quarts of water. Mix it with two
quarts of white brandy, and add a table-spoonful of oil of anniseed.
Let it stand a week; then filter it through, white blotting paper, and
bottle it for use.
Clove or Cinnamon Cordial may be made in the same manner, by mixing
sugar, water and brandy, and adding oil of cinnamon or oil of cloves.
You may colour any of these cordials red by stirring in a little
powdered cochineal that has been dissolved in a small quantity of
brandy.
ROSE BRANDY.
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