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Cinnamon Cordial

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United Kingdom

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

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.
  • Storage. The keeping times and places here are from before refrigeration. Follow current storage guidance.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. a cupful of water
  2. a quart of spirits
  3. Sugar
  4. one quart of cordial
  5. Cinnamon

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. Pour three pennyworth of oil of cinnamon upon eight or nine large Imnps of sugar, and put them into a large bottle Avith a quart of spirits and half a pound ©f sugar boiled to a syrup, with a cupful of water.
  2. Shake all well together, and let the bottle remain in a cool place for a few days ;
  3. then strain or filter the liquid vmtil it becomes j bright and clear.
  4. Bottle for use.
  5. Time to infuse, a week.
  6. Probable cost, uncertain, dopending on the spirits.
  7. Sufficient for one quart of cordial.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve