Name: Excellent Syrup
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons of tar; 10 cents worth of stick liquorice; 2 quarts of water; 1 pound of dark brown sugar

Excellent Syrup

Ingredients

2 tablespoons of tar
10 cents worth of stick liquorice
2 quarts of water
1 pound of dark brown sugar

Directions

Boil the tar and liquorice in 2 quarts of water for 1.5 hours.
Strain the mixture.
Add 1 pound of dark brown sugar.
Boil slowly for 3 hours.

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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Excellent Syrup

Excellent Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

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