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Pomegranate Water

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 2

Sufficient for a pint and a quarter of pomegranate water.

Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1265. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pomegranate Water.— Carefully take out the deep-coloured pips from three ripe pomegranates, and bruise them well vtAYl the back of a wooden spoon. Mix with them six ounces of roughly-powdered sugar, the strained juice of a lemon, three-quarteis of a pint of ■water, two or three drops of cochineal, and half a dozen drops of the essence of elder flowers

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