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Sack with Clove-Gilly Flowers

From The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened, 1910

If the season of the flowers is not yet past, your Sack will be better if you put it upon new flowers.

Presented as published in 1910. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened (1910) by Sir Kenelm Digby, page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SACK WITH CLOVE-GILLY FLOWERS If you will make a Cordial Liquor of Sack with Clove-gillyflowers, you must do thus. Prepare your Gillyflowers, as is said before, and put them into great double glass-bottles, that hold two gal- lons a piece, or more ; and put to every gallon of Sack, a good half pound of the wiped and cut flowers

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.