Balm TVine
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United Kingdom
Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 4 ingredients
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
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- Boil forty pounds of sugar and nine gallons of water for two hours, skim it well gently, and put it into a tub to cool.
- Bruise two pOVmds and a half of the tops of balm, and put them into a barrel wdth a little new yeast ;
- and when the liquor is cold, pour it on the balm.
- Stir it well together, let it stand iw'enty-four hours, stirring it often;
- then close it up, and let it stand six weeks.
- Rack it off, put a lump of sugar into every bottle, and cork it well ;
- it wdll be better the second year than the first.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Wooden spoon
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Slotted spoon