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Fruit Syrups

A drink made by cooking fruit with water, then straining and sweetening.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Mary Ronald · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 2 ingredients
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Fruit Syrups

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook a quart of fruit with a pint of water until well softened.

  2. Strain and press out the juice through a heavy cloth.

  3. When cold, sweeten and dilute to taste.

  4. Serve in glasses filled with cracked ice.

By Mary Ronald. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Fruit
Provides the main flavour and the juice that forms the syrup 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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