1863 The manufacture of liquors, wines, and cordials

CORDIALS.

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Boil these together for one hour, then add one peck of elder flowers, and put them in the liquor when it is nearly cold. The next day put in a tum- bler of good vinegar, and a pint of good yeast ; then put it in a clean cask, with twelve pounds of raisins, and bottle in three months.

Gold Cordial.

Angelica root, four pounds ;

oil

of orange, fifty drops ;

bruised

raisins, five pounds ;

coriander seeds, half a pound ; seeds and cassia, each half a pound ;

bruised caraway bruised cloves,

two ounces ;

two ounces

sliced

English saffron,

;

liquorice root, two pounds ;

clean spirit, fifteen gal-

add sugar, thirty

Macerate for twelve days ;

lons.

mix. and

pounds, dissolved in five gallons water ;

fine with egg or milk.

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Orris-root

four

Vioktte.

powder,

Ratifia

two gal-

ounces

; archil, four ounces ;

neutral spirit,

Digest for one week, then add honey, three

lons.

Mix and

quarts, dissolved in four pints of water.

strain ; color with turnsole to suit taste, by allow- ing the coloring matter to digest with the liquor several days.

Sunny South (Cordial).

ho-

Water, five gallons ;

Take three gallons of

ney, three gallons ;

mix.