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Genuine French Brandy

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Genuine French Brandy

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pound ice until it resembles snow and salt it as if for icing water.

  2. Place the salted ice around the refrigerant and put a small fire under the still.

  3. Fill the still (the bladder) with wine, only filling it two-thirds full.

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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