Blackberry Cordial
From Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management, 1885
Serves 4
Useful for diarrhea or dysentery; can be mixed with water.
Presented as published in 1885. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 307. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
BLACKBERRY CORDIAL. Allow a pound of granulated or loaf sugar for each quart of blackberry- J nice, obtained by mashing the berries, and then squeezing them in a cloth; add to these quantities of berry-juice and sugar, a quarter of an ounce each of whole cinnamon, allspice, cloves, and pounded but not powdered nutmeg. Boil all these ingredients together over a gentle 580 PRACTICAL AMERICAN COOKERY. fire for two hours; then strain the cordial thus produced through a bolting-cloth sieve, or through a fine cloth, add to it half a pint of the best brandy
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