Raspberry Cordial

Ingredients

• Fill stone jar with ripe berries
• one pound of loaf sugar
• brandy in equal proportion to juice

Method

1. 1

   Cover the jar close and let stand where it will heat gently till fruit breaks of itself.

2. 2

   Squeeze juice through linen bag and to each quart allow one pound of loaf sugar.

3. 3

   Let all come to a boil and skim well till scum ceases to rise, then remove from stove and put again through linen bag, pouring into a crock with brandy in equal proportion to juice.

4. 4

   Stir, and when cold place in demijohn and cork for two weeks, when, if not clear, filter, then bottle and seal.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fruit recipes (1907) by Berry, Riley Maria Fletcher Mrs., page 69. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RASPBERRY CORDIAL Fill stone jar with ripe berries; cover close and let stand where it will heat gently till fruit breaks of itself. Squeeze juice through linen bag and to each quart allow one pound of loaf sugar. Let all come to a boil and skim well till scum ceases to rise, when remove from stove and put again through linen bag, pouring into a crock with brandy in equal proportion to juice

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