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GINGER CORDIAL.
the spices, slice the liquorice, and pull the saffron
in pieces. Digest these ingredients eight days in
two gallons of proof-spirit, in a vessel close stop¬
ped; then filter the liquor, and add to it half a
gallon of Canary wine, and one drachm of the
tincture of ambergris.
TO MAKE TWO GALLONS OF CINNAMON CORDIAL.
Take two pennyweight of oil of cassia lignea,
killed, as before directed, with sugar and strong
spirits of wine, one gallon and a half, at one in
six; cardamon seeds, husked, one ounce; orange
and lemon peel dried, of each one ounce; fine
with half a pint of alum water; sweeten to your
palate with loaf-sugar, not exceeding two pounds,
and make up two gallons measure with the water
you dissolve the sugar in.
This is a very cheap and elegant cinnamon cor¬
dial. Colour with burnt sugar.
GINGER CORDIAL.
This cordial, within these few years, has obtain¬
ed such repute, that in the mansion and in the cot¬
tage it is alike to be found. From almost every
wine-merchant, grocer, and spirit-dealer in Scot-