Name: Mulberry Water
Ingredients: 1 pound mulberries; ½ cup coarse sugar; 2 cups water

Mulberry Water

Ingredients

1 pound mulberries
½ cup coarse sugar
2 cups water

Directions

Place the mulberries in a basin and cover them with the coarse sugar.
Crush the mulberries and sugar together.
Pour the water over the mixture and filter it through a fine sieve.

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

Mulberries: Provide the main fruit flavour and colour for the drink.
Coarse sugar: Sweetens the drink and helps draw juice out of the crushed mulberries.

“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.