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Cherry Cordial

Ingredients

• 1 bushel of fine ripe cherries, either red or black, or mixed

To each quart of juice allow

• 1 quart of water
• 1 pound of sugar
• 1 quart of brandy
• 2 ounces of cloves
• 4 ounces of cinnamon

Instructions

Take cherries, stone them, put them into a clean wooden vessel, and mash them with a mallet or beetle. Then boil them about five minutes, and strain the juice. Boil in the water (before you mix it with the juice) the cloves, and cinnamon; then strain out the spice. Put the mixture into a stone jug, or a demijohn, and cork it tightly. Bottle it in two or three months.

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Source

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