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Blackberry Cordial Without Brandy

A sweet blackberry cordial made by mashing berries, extracting juice, adding sugar, water, and boiling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Blackberry Cordial Without Brandy

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Mash the blackberries and cover them with water.

  2. Let them stand for about three days until the pulp rises to the top.

  3. Draw off the fluid into another vessel.

Sweeten and finish

  1. For every gallon of juice, add 1 pound of sugar and stir well every day for 10 days.

  2. For every gallon of juice, add 1 quart of water.

  3. For every quarter gallon of juice, add 1 pound of crushed sugar.

  4. Set the mixture on the stove and bring it to a boil.

  5. Skim off any scum that rises and bottle the cordial immediately.

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

Blackberries
Provide the flavor and color of the cordial through their juice.
Sugar
Sweetens the juice and helps preserve the cordial.

“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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