Cassis

Ingredients

• 31b. of fine ripe black currants
• four and a half quarts of good gin
• fib. of raspberries
• two cloves
• a bit of cinnamon
• sugar or crushed sugar candy to taste

Method

1. 1

   Pick over and crush the black currants and put them in a jar with the gin, raspberries, cloves, cinnamon, and sugar.

2. 2

   Let it stand for six weeks, then strain, bottle, and keep for at least three months.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "Queen" cookery books: Pickles and Preserves (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cassis. — Pick over and crush 31b. of fine ripe black currants and put them in a jar with four and a half quarts of good gin, fib. of raspberries, two- cloves, a bit of cinnamon, and sugar or crushed sugar candy to taste

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