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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.

Ingredients 8 ingredients

  1. a gallon of brandy
  2. Wine
  3. an ounce of cloves
  4. four pounds of sugar dissolved
  5. a drachm of oil of cloves
  6. Spirits
  7. two ounces of
  8. four pints of water

Method

  1. as soon as it has done, bung it up for four months.
  2. Draw it off, and add a gallon of brandy;
  3. stop it close for six or seven weeks, and then bottle it.
  4. CLOVE (Essence of ).—Infuse a drachm of oil of cloves in two ounces of the strongest spirits of wine, apothecary’s measure.
  5. ;
  6. Cuoves ( O2/ of ).*—This is madein the same manner as cinnamonum ;
  7. the quantities are, an ounce of cloves to three quarts of brandy, and four pounds of sugar dissolved in four pints of water.

Plating

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Credit

From The cook's dictionary, and house-keeper's directory. A new family manual of cookery and confectionery, on a plan of read (1830), printed page 5, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b33287016

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.