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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 5 ingredients

  1. 5 wine
  2. Spirit
  3. 4 lbs. cDf loaf-sugar
  4. 2 lbs. of sugar
  5. Water
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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.

  • Hot sugar. Hot sugar sticks to skin and burns far hotter than boiling water: don't touch or taste it. Keep a bowl of cold water close, and keep children away while it cooks.

Method

  1. !
  2. Directions for Use.~'Boi\ 4 lbs.
  3. cDf loaf-sugar in 5 wine-quarts of tt.vater (125 oz.), strain through ;:otton, and when cold add the liibove quantity of essence.
  4. Shake A veil and bottle.
  5. ■ lingerin .
  6. iapsicin .
  7. ■Itectified spirit iirlycerine 'caramel .
  8. \yrup if'range-flower water to gr- vj 5'j- giss.
  9. Put the capsicin and gingerin into rnortar and triturate with the >irit ;
  10. then stir in the glycerine, ?xt the caramel and syrup.
  11. Dis- 'Nve the acid in the orange-flower ^ater (previously brought to the »l), and finally add this solution the mixture.
  12. be put up in 4-oz.
  13. bottles, re contents of which, with 2 lbs.
  14. of sugar and 2 winebottlefuls of water, will make ginger-wine.
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Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve