Raspberry Cordial
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Add 1 pint of raspberries and 6 tablespoons of granulated sugar to each quart bottle.
Mix 1 cup of alcohol with 2 cups of water in a separate vessel.
Steep
Fill the bottles with the alcohol-water mixture, cork them, and set them in the sun for 2 weeks.
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 flavor and aroma that the liquid takes on.
- Granulated sugar
- Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the raspberries.
- Alcohol
- Draws flavor from the fruit over time and helps preserve the cordial.
The step that matters
Steeping for the full 2 weeks. Alcohol pulls flavor and color from the raspberries gradually, so the cordial tastes thin or pale if steeping is cut short. Corking the bottles keeps the alcohol from evaporating during the steep.
“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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