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Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. six gallons of ale of
  2. six gallons of ale till reduced
  3. Cut
  4. Cordial
Contains Gluten Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Cut the woods as thin as possible with a knife, and bruise them in a mortar;
  2. then add the following herbs :— Cowslip-flowers, Roman wormwood, of each a handful;
  3. sage, rosemary, betony, mugwort, balm, sweet marjoram, of each a handful;
  4. boil all these in six gallons of ale till reduced to four ;
  5. then put the wood and herbs into six gallons of ale of the second wort, and boil down to four ;
  6. let it run from the dregs, and put your ale all together, and turn it, as other ale that works.
  7. e.g.
  8. @.
  9. 2%.
  10. DR.
  11. KITCHINER’S CORDIAL.
  12. It would be an injustice to the memory of one of the most ambitious Amphitrions of our own day, were we, in a work that treats upon and extols good living to the skies, not to say something of good Master Kitchiner and his warm heart (requiescat in pace ).
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  14. Kitchiner’s practice, it is well known, never extended beyond the precincts of his dining-room and much vaunted kitchen ;
  15. he ransacked, en théorie, the Almanach des Gourmands from beginning to end, and back again.
  16. This was the oracle he consulted, and which gave some popularity to his shop works;
  17. but for his best productions, everything, in fact, either ingenious or witty in them, he owes to the metamorphosed pages of this French periodical.
  18. The Cook’s Oracle

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mortar and pestle
  • Chef's knife
  • Spatula