Damson Cordial

Ingredients

• Prick some sound, ripe damsons
• put in a lemon
• an orange sliced or chopped
• six or eight cloves
• a small bit of cinnamon
• joz. whole ginger
• and a vanilla bean
• pour on to it a bottleful of the best gin

Method

1. 1

   Prick the damsons and pack them into bottles with layers of sugar.

2. 2

   Add the lemon, orange, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, and vanilla bean.

3. 3

   Fill the bottle with fruit and sugar, pour on gin, cork tightly, and keep in a dark place for six months.

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

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