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Angelica liquor

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Additives or old utensils. The text names something no longer considered safe in food or for cooking in, such as lead, alum, borax, bitter almonds or copper pans. Don't use it.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. 1 3/4 pint alcohol
  3. 6 chopped bitter almonds
  4. 1 3/4 pint water
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Cook safely

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

  • 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. Infuse in 1 3/4 pint alcohol at 90°, 3 1/2 ozs fresh sticks of angelica and 5 or 6 chopped bitter almonds.
  2. After 15 days, melt on fire 1 lb, sugar and 1 3/4 pint water, remove from fire when ebullition and add the infusion.
  3. Filter to Joseph paper, when cold.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board