Italian Liqueur
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Italy
Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
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Ingredients 10 ingredients
- Spirits
- Cloves
- a wineglassful of water
- Vanilla
- Cinnamon
- Wine
- Sugar
- a drachm of alum
- a pint of rose water
- a pint of spring water
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Sulphites
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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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- Mix together forty grains of cinnamon, ten of cloves, and ten of vanilla ;
- pour over two drachms of spirits of wine of 32°, and let all infuse for ten or twelve days, keeping the bottle well corked.
- Prepare a syrup with a pound and a half of sugar in a pint of spring water and half a pint of rose water.
- Take ten drops of cochineal and half a drachm of alum, and let them boil in a wineglassful of water for a few minutes to get the colouring matter.
- Then mix all together thoroughly, and filter through filtering papers.
Plating
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Saucepan