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Arrow-root

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. a pint of water
  2. Nutmeg
  3. Brandy
  4. a glass of sherry
  5. Must
  6. Sugar
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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.

  • 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.

Method

  1. Care must be taken to procure that which is genuine, mix it in the same manner as you would starch ;
  2. then add a glass of sherry, w'ith sugar and nutmeg to fancy, or a little brandy.
  3. Arrow-root jelly.
  4. Boil a pint of water, with two spoonsful of good brandy, some nutmeg, and sugar, then pour it boiling hot on two spoonsful of arrow-root, previously mixed smooth with cold water.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan