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Cordial, Raspberry

A sweetened raspberry syrup made by macerating berries with tartaric acid and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Cordial, Raspberry

Ingredients

Directions

Steep

  1. Mix tartaric acid with water.

  2. Pour the mixture over the raspberries and let it stand for 24 hours.

Strain and sweeten

  1. Press the fruit and strain the juice through a muslin cloth.

  2. Add loaf sugar to every pint of juice.

Bottle

  1. Bottle the juice and seal the bottles.

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

Raspberries
Provide the main fruit flavour and the bulk of the juice.
Tartaric acid
Adds sharpness that balances the fruit and the sugar.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the juice and balances its acidity.

“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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