Orange Gin

Ingredients

• the rind of six Seville oranges
• and six large Tangerine oranges
• Put it into a gallon of unsweetened gin
• drop twenty drops of essential oil of orange
• Make a syrup of three pounds of sugar-candy powdered
• to three pints of spring water
• and the juice of the twelve oranges

Method

1. 1

   Let the gin with the orange rind remain for four days, then strain off the gin.

2. 2

   Make a syrup with the sugar-candy, spring water, and orange juice.

3. 3

   Clear it, and add the syrup to the gin.

4. 4

   Let it stand for four days, then bottle and cork it well.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery and housekeeping (1882) by Reeve, Henry Mrs., page 168. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Orange Gin, Take the rind of six Seville and six large Tange- rine oranges peeled very thin. Put it into a gallon of unsweetened gin ; drop twenty drops of essential oil of orange on to a lump of sugar, and put it in the gin. Let it remain four days, then strain off the gin. Make a syrup of three pounds of sugar-candy pow- dered, to three pints of spring water, and the juice of the twelve oranges

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