Spons' Household Manual: A treasury of domestic receipts and a guide for home management
General
Spons' Household Manual: A treasury of domestic receipts and a guide for home management
Home economics
Soak the berries, if dry, in q.s. of water, and express, and repeat
until 6½ pints of juice are obtained. If the berries are fresh,
express the juice, and mix water with residue, to wash out all juice;
then add water to make it measure 6½ pints. Mix the spirit with the
6½ pints of juice; moisten the powders with this mixture, and pack in
a percolator. Allow it to drain, and pour on water until percolate
measures 10 pints; then add the sugar, dissolve and, if necessary,
filter.
_Brandy Shrub._--1 gal. brandy, 1 pint orange juice, 1 pint lemon
juice, peel of 2 oranges and 1 lemon; digest for 24 hours, strain,
add 4 lb. white sugar dissolved in 5 pints water; in a fortnight
decant the clear liquid.
_Cacao._--Infuse 1 lb. Caraccas cacao nuts, cut small, add ½ oz.
vanilla in 1 gal. brandy for 8 days; strain, and add 3 qt. thick
syrup.
_Caraway._--From the essential oil or the seed (1 fl. dr. of the
oil = ¼ lb. seed), using 2½ lb. sugar per gal., and adding a little
cassia oil and essence of lemon or orange.
_Cedrat._--(_a_) 1 pint spirit of citron, 1 qt. spirit of cedrat, 3
qt. proof spirit, 16 lb. white sugar dissolved in 2 gal. pure soft
water.
(_b_) ¼ oz. cedrat essence, 1 gal. pure proof spirit; dissolve; add
3 pints water; agitate well; distil 3 qt., and add equal measure of
clarified syrup.
_Celery Cordial._--To 1 lb. essence of celery, add 1 gal. pure spirit
and 1 gal. syrup of white sugar.
_Chartreuse._--Macerate 64 parts by weight, each, of the fresh herb
of sweet balm and hyssop, 32 parts of fresh root of angelica, 16 of
cannella, and 4 each of Spanish saffron and mace, in 1000 parts of
alcohol, for 8 days. Then distil it on to a certain quantity (which
varies according to the colour desired) of fresh balm and hyssop;
after a time these are expressed, the liquor sweetened with 125 parts
of sugar, and filtered.
_Cherry-bounce._--(_a_) This is a very wholesome cordial, and may,
with great benefit, be taken by persons affected with cough of long
standing, or those suffering with lung complaint. Take 5 gal. cherry
juice, 2 gal. syrup of white sugar. And dissolve in 1 gal. pure
spirit, ½ oz. oil of bitter almonds, ¼ oz. oil of cloves, ¼ oz. oil
of cinnamon. Mix all together.
(_b_) To 15 gal. cherry juice, add 15 gal. 80 per cent. spirit; 30
gal. Catalonia or Marseilles wine; 1½ oz. essence of noyeau; 3 oz.
mace infused in 1 qt. 95 per cent. alcohol; ½ lb. cinnamon infused in
½ gal. water; ¼ lb. cloves ground and infused in 1 qt. water. Put all
the above ingredients in a clean barrel and add 60 gal. sugar syrup
25° B. Stir up the ingredients well, and filter after 4 or 5 days.
If the colour is not deep enough, add a little sugar colouring. The
above recipe is to make 120 gal., but a much smaller quantity may be
made by reducing the quantity of each ingredient and observing the
same proportion in all.
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