Name: Violet Syrup
Ingredients: garden violet flowers; boiling water; double refined crystallized white sugar

Violet Syrup

Ingredients

garden violet flowers
boiling water
double refined crystallized white sugar

Directions

Place the garden violet flowers in boiling water for half a day in a warm, closed container.
Strain the mixture and add double refined crystallized white sugar.
Heat the mixture in a water bath until the sugar completely dissolves.
Seal the container and allow the syrup to cool before using.

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.