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The BonVivant's Companion
fancy drinks
Franklin^s Recipe for Orange Shrub
In the voluminous papers of Benjamin Franldin now in the
archives of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia,
of which he was the fotmder and first president, has been found
his own recipe for orange shrub:
To agallon ofrum two quarts of orange juice and two pounds
of sugar—dissolve the juice in the sugar before you mix with the
rum—put all together in a cask and shake well—let it stand three
or four weeks and it will be very fine and fit for bottling—when
you have bottled the fine, pass the thick through a filtering paper
out into a funnel—that not a dropmay be lost.
To obtain the flavour ofthe orange peel pare a few oranges and
put it in rumfor twelve hours—and put that rumin cask with the
others.
Raspberry Shrub
3 quarts of ripe raspberries
I quart of vinegar
After standing a day, strain it, adding to each pint a pound of
sugar, and skim it clear, while boiling about half an hour. Put a
wineglass of brandy to each pint of the shrub when cool. Two
spoonfuls of this, mixed with a tumbler of water, is an excellent
drink in warm weather, and in fever.
White Currant Shrub
Strip the fruit, and prepare in a jar, as for jelly; strain the juice,
ofwhich put two quarts to one gallon of rum, and two pounds of
lump sugar; strain through a jelly bag.
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