Cinnamon Cordial

Ingredients

• three penny-worth of oil of cinnamon
• eight or nine large lumps of sugar
• a quart of spirits
• half a pound of sugar
• a cupful of water

Method

1. 1

   Pour oil of cinnamon on sugar in a large bottle with spirits and boiled sugar syrup mixed with water.

2. 2

   Shake well and let it infuse in a cool place for a few days, then strain or filter until clear.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 376. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

half a pound of sugar into a half gallon jar. Fill it with cider. Shake it well, and lot it ferment for three or four months; the result wiU be two quarts of good, nicely-flavoured vinegar. Probable cost, 5d. per pint. Cinnamon Biscuits. — ^A^lisk six eggs with half a pound of sifted sugar, a quarter of an ounce of powdered cinnamon, and a wine- glassful of rose or orange-flower water. Add about half a pound of flour, to form a paste. Koll this out thin, cut it into little cakes in fancy shapes, and bake them on a buttered tin in a moderate oven. Bake them for about twenty minutes, when they will be lightly browned. Probable cost, Is. Sufficient for an ordinary -dish. Cinnamon Cake.— Beat the whites of six eggs to a firm froth, and stir in half a pound of finely-sifted sugar, eight ounces of fine flour, and half a poxmd of good butter, oiled but not hot. Mix these lightly together, then add powdered cinnamon enough to colour the cake slightly. Pour the mixture into a weU-but- tered mould, and bake it in a good oven. Time to bake, forty minutes. Probable cost. Is. 6d. Sufficient for one moderate-sized cake. Cinnamon Cake (another way).— Mix tkoroughly half a pound of powdered sugar, half a pound of fine flour, half a pound of fresh, butter, a quarter of an ounce ©f powdered cin- namon, the grated peel of a quarter of a small lemon, and the whites of eight eggs beaten to a solid froth. If preferred, a glass of brandy or rum may be added. Pour the mixture into a buttered mould, and bake it in a good oven. Two eggs and a cupful of sour cream may be used instead of eight eggs, and the mixture may be spread on a flat, well-buttered tin, instead of being put into a mould. Time, half an houi\ Probable cost. Is. lOd. Suffi- cient for a quart mould. Cinnamon Cordial, — Pour three penny- worth of oil of cinnamon upon eight or nine large Imnps of sugar, and put them into a large bottle Avith a quart of spirits and half a pound ©f sugar boiled to a syrup, with a cupful of water

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