Name: Hartshorn Drink
Ingredients: 2 oz burnt horns; 1 oz gum-arabic; 3 pints water; sweetener to taste

Hartshorn Drink

Ingredients

2 oz burnt horns
1 oz gum-arabic
3 pints water
sweetener to taste

Directions

Boil burnt horns, gum-arabic, and water together until reduced to 2 pints.
Strain the mixture.
Sweeten to taste before serving.

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

Burnt horns: Provides the traditional base flavour and body of the drink.
Gum-arabic: Adds thickness and a smooth, mouthfeel-enhancing texture to the liquid.

“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.