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Blackberry Cordial

A sweet blackberry syrup made by crushing berries, adding boiling water, steeping, straining, and sweetening with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Blackberry Cordial

Blackberry Cordial

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Crush the ripe blackberries.

  2. To each gallon of juice, add 1 quart of boiling water.

  3. Let it stand for 24 hours, stirring a few times.

  4. Strain the mixture and add 2 pounds of sugar for each gallon of liquid.

  5. Transfer to jugs and cork tightly.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Ripe blackberries
Provide the juice and the main flavour of the cordial.
Boiling water
Helps extract juice and flavour from the crushed blackberries.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the blackberry juice.

The step that matters

Letting it stand for 24 hours. Steeping the crushed blackberries in hot water draws out colour and flavour. Stirring a few times keeps the fruit in contact with the liquid so extraction is even.

“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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