Damson

Ingredients

• Choose ripe, sound fruit
• from lfoz. to 2oz. of crushed sugar-candy
• the kernels of five or six damsons, or as many bitter almonds

Method

1. 1

   Prick the damsons and pack them into bottles with sugar-candy and kernels.

2. 2

   Fill with gin, cork tightly, and store for two to three months, shaking every few days.

3. 3

   Strain off, bottle, and cork closely.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "Queen" cookery books: Pickles and Preserves (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 31. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Damson Cordial. — Prick some sound, ripe damsons all over with a needle, then pack them into wide mouthed bottles, in alternate layers of fruit and caster sugar ; when the bottle is half full put in a lemon and an orange sliced or chopped (remove the pips), six or eight cloves, a small bit of cinnamon, joz. whole ginger, and a vanilla bean. Now fill up the bottle with fruit and sugar as before, and pour on to it a bottleful of the best gin, cork tightly, and keep in a dark place for six months. Ducalyqqtus Liqueur. — Put into a jar lib. of dried eucalyptus leaves, lfoz. juniper berries, 2oz. orange- flowers, and a quart of spirit ; close it down tightly, and infuse for fourteen days, shaking it daily for a week ; then strain, mix with a pint of clear syrup, filter, and bottle off. Gin, Cherry. — Stalk lib. of cherries, and scald (but do not boil) them in a quart of syrup, then lay them in wide-mouthed bottles, and pour on to them a quart of good unsweetened gin, and two quarts of svrup, including that in which they were scalded, and a bottle of essence of cherries ; cork down closely. It is ready for use almost at once, but improves by keeping. Filter as wanted. Damson. — Choose ripe, sound fruit, and prick them in several places with a darning needle. Have ready, clean, dry, and wide-mouthed bottles, and drop in the damsons, about half filling them, and shaking in, as you do so, from lfoz. to 2oz. of crushed sugar- candy, and the kernels of five or six damsons, or as many bitter almonds

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