The housekeeper's valuable present or, Lady's closet companion being a new and complete art of preparing confects. According to modern practice / [Robert Abbot].

  • Abbot, Robert, cook.
Date:
[between 1790 and 1799?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The housekeeper's valuable present or, Lady's closet companion being a new and complete art of preparing confects. According to modern practice / [Robert Abbot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    peel, the fame quantity of orange peel ; nutmegs bruifed, a quarter of a pound; ftrong proof fpirits, three gallons; water two gallons; macerate, diftil and dulcify with double refined fugar, two pounds. Ratafia Cordial. Take three gallons of Mbolaffes brandy, nutmegs three ounces and a half; bruife them, and infufe them in the brandy; adding ambergreafe, three erains ; bitter almonds, one pound and a half: mix the ambergreafe with three pounds of fine Lifbon fugar, then infufe all for feven or eight days, and {train it eff for ufe. Take a gallon of French brandy, two pounds of fugar, two quarts of water, and halfa pound of orange flowers ; makea fyrup of your fugar and water, put in your orange flowers, and give all a gentle boil; then mix in the brandy, and