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Cherry Brandy

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 11 ingredients

  1. Plum
  2. Apricot
  3. a pint of milk
  4. Brandy
  5. One teaspoonful of cream
  6. Two pounds of Morello cherries
  7. Peach
  8. Cut
  9. Sugar
  10. Chocolate
  11. a pound of kernels
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Cook safely

  • 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. Two pounds of Morello cherries.
  2. A dozen peach, apricot, or plum Three-quarters of a pound of kernels.
  3. sugar candy.
  4. Enough good brandy to cover the fruit.
  5. Method.
  6. — Carefully wipe the fruit, cut off all but an inch of their stalks and prick each with a coarse needle.
  7. Pound the candy and take out the string that is in the centre of each piece.
  8. Fill some wide-necked bottles three-parts full of layers of cherries, sugar candy, and kernels.
  9. Fill them up with brandy, cork them tightly, resin or wax the corks, and shake the bottles occasionally.
  10. Store them for at least three months before use.
  11. This brandy improves with keeping.
  12. A Cup of Chocolate One ounce of good plain choco- Half a pint of milk.
  13. late.
  14. ^ One teaspoonful of cream.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Mortar and pestle
  • Chef's knife