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Lady Mallet’s Cordial Water

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Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 9 ingredients

  1. a quart of running water
  2. Must
  3. a pound of fine sugar
  4. an ounce of good muskallis
  5. a pint of damask rose water
  6. Clove
  7. Brandy
  8. one pint of cinnamon water
  9. Cut

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. Take a pound of fine sugar, and beat it up with a quart of running water;
  2. strain it three or four times through a bag, then add to it a a pint of damask rose water, which must be passed through the strainer;
  3. then add clove water and rosa-solis water, of each half a pint ;
  4. one pint of cinnamon water, or three pints and a half of aqua-vitee (brandy), according to your taste;
  5. strain all thesethree or four times ;
  6. then take half an ounce of good muskallis, and cut them crossly, and put them into a glass, and fill them with water.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Sieve