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Anniseed Cordial

Ingredients

• 1 pound of loaf-sugar
• 2 quarts of water
• 2 quarts of white brandy
• 1 table-spoonful of oil of anniseed

Instructions

Melt loaf-sugar in the water. Mix it with the white brandy, and add oil of anniseed. Let it stand a week; then filter it through, white blotting paper, and bottle it for use.

Clove or Cinnamon Cordial may be made in the same manner, by mixing sugar, water and brandy, and adding oil of cinnamon or oil of cloves. You may colour any of these cordials red by stirring in a little powdered cochineal that has been dissolved in a small quantity of brandy.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).