Name: Tincture of Cinnamon
Ingredients: 3 ounces cinnamon powder; alcohol (sufficient quantity); water (sufficient quantity)

Tincture of Cinnamon

Ingredients

3 ounces cinnamon powder
alcohol (sufficient quantity)
water (sufficient quantity)

Directions

Mix alcohol and water in a ratio of 2:1.
Moisten the cinnamon powder with 1 ounce of the mixture.
Pack the moistened powder into a conical percolator.
Gradually pour the mixture over the powder until you obtain 2 pints of tincture.

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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