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British Madeira

A historical recipe from The English Housekeeper, by Anne Cobbett (1851).

A historical recipe

The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management Containing advice on the conduct of household affairs and practical instructions concerning the store-room, the pantry, the larder, the kitchen, the cellar, the dairy; the whole being intended for the use of young ladies who undertake the superintendence of their own housekeeping, by Anne Cobbett (1851). Project Gutenberg eBook #55314.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From The English Housekeeper, by Anne Cobbett (1851). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #55314 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55314). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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United Kingdom. Associated with United Kingdom by a demonym leading its title: British (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Boil 30 lbs.
  2. moist sugar in 10 gallons of water, half an hour, and scum well.
  3. Let it cool, and to every gallon put 1 quart of ale, out of the vat;
  4. let this work, in a tub, a day or two;
  5. then put it in the cask, with 1 lb.
  6. sugar candy, 6 lbs.
  7. raisins, 1 quart of brandy, and 2 oz.
  8. isinglass.
  9. When it has ceased to ferment, bung it tight, for a year.