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Alcoholic Fruit Juices

A mixture of fresh pressed fruit juice and double proof spirit.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Alcoholic Fruit Juices

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add 12% of double proof spirit to fresh pressed fruit juice and mix well.

  2. Filter through flannel.

  3. Bottle the mixture.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Double proof spirit
Provides alcohol that preserves the liqueur and gives it body and warmth.
Fresh pressed fruit juice
Supplies the fruit flavour, sweetness and most of the liquid base.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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