1876 How to Mix Drinks or the Bon-Vivant's Companion 2$50 by Jerry Thomas

KE0IPE3 FOB SMALL QUABTmES. 227 the amount of a pint; take 2 pints of syrup; boU it to a "ball"(see N"o. 16), and add the coffee; put it again on the fire; boil it to a "pearl"(see No.13), and strain it through a cloth; bottle it when cold

438. ■Wormwood Syrup.

Iounce of wormwood. 1lb. of sugar.

Make nearly a pint of the infusion of wormwood; add to it 1lb. of loaf sugar; clarify it (see Nos. 6 and 7), and boil to a "pearl" (see No. 13); when cold, bottle it. 489. Marsh-Mallow Syrup. Take 2 ounces of marsh-mallow roots; cut them mto smtfll pieces; bruise them in a mortar, and hoil the mal lows in 1^ pint of water, till reduced to a pint; then clear it, and add 1 lb. of sugar, finishing it in the same wa\ as capillaire (see No. 429). Pick off all the green parts from hah" a pound of pinks; put the flowers in a mortar, and pound them -uith a pint of boOing water; strain the decoction through a cloth; clarify 1lb. of loaf sugar (see No. 6); boil it to a "b.all" (see No. 16), and add it to the decoction; put it again on the fire, and boil it to a " pearl" (see No. 13). This syrup may also be made without pounding the flowers, only boil ing them with the sugar; when done, sldm it, and strain it through a cloth. The dark-red velvety single-pink is the best for sjTup. 440. Syrup of Pinks. ^ lb. of pinks. 1lb. of sugar.