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GINGER CORDIAL.
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land, it may be purchased. Indeed, so great is
the consumption of it, that hundreds of dozens are
sent from Leith to London monthly.
Receipt for making ten Gallons.
Take two pounds of the best Jamaica ginger,
and bruise it with a hammer, piece by piece, so
that it may all be properly crushed; put it into a
jar large enough to hold two gallons; pour upon
it one quart of boiling water; when cold, add
five quarts of whisky 11 o. p., stirring the ginger
well up, and cover it close down. The operation
of stirring ought to be performed three or four
times a-day. This mixture must infuse sixty
hours, but not exceeding. If not required to be
very aromatic, forty-eight will be sufficient. When
this time is expired, take seventeen pounds of
good Jamaica sugar, and dissolve it in two gal¬
lons of water; put it into a pot and let it boil, un¬
til, by skimming, all the feculencies are removed;
put it into the cask; wash the remaining syrup
out of the pot in which the sugar was boiled with
two gallons of water, and add it to that in the
cask; strain the infusion of ginger into a pan,
and when the syrup in the cask is perfectly cool,
add the extract to it, with one quart of lime juice,
half a gallon of the best West India shrub, half
a gallon of rum, four quarts of good malt whisky,
11 o. p., and half an ounce of essence of lemon;