Syrup of any Flower

Ingredients

• Clip your flowers
• take their weight in sugar
• put in two or three spoonfuls of the same syrup or still’d water

Method

1. 1

   Layer flowers and sugar in a gallipot until full.

2. 2

   Tie a cloth on top, place a tile on it, and set in a kettle of water over a gentle fire.

3. 3

   Let it infuse for four or five hours, then strain through a flannel and bottle when cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine (1886) by William Carew Hazlitt, page 45. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Syrup of any Flower : — Clip your flowers, and take their weight in sugar ; then take a high gallipot, and a row of flowers, and a strowing of sugar, till the pot is full ; then put in two or three spoonfuls of the same syrup or still’d water

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