Name: Gin and Tansy
Ingredients: 1 bunch of tansy; 1 bottle of Holland gin; ice

Gin and Tansy

Ingredients

1 bunch of tansy
1 bottle of Holland gin
ice

Directions

Steep the bunch of tansy in the bottle of Holland gin to extract the essence.
Serve in a whiskey glass with a lump of ice for the customer to help themselves.

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

Tansy: Provides the herbal aroma and flavour that the gin takes on during steeping.
Holland gin: Acts as the solvent that extracts the essence from the tansy.

“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.