To Make Cherry Brandy

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Title

To Make Cherry Brandy

Transcript

To make Cherry Brandy Rx Cherries & pull of the stalks & put them into a h[text loss] pot, to every lare of Cherries put a lare of suger & sodo till your pot be full, then out as much Brandy in as wi[text loss] cover your Cherries, and to a gallon of cherries & bra[text loss] put 4 lemons sliced pill on all iwth a littell [illegible] [text loss] lett all these stand 6 weeks, then pour of the clean in[text loss] bottles which you may keepit all the year it is good for [text loss] Collicks or any sickness at the Homack then you may put brandy to the cherries a gane which you need- not Bottell, Get lett it stand till it be drunk. which is good for the same use, you make take the Cherries & bruse them in a morter with the Hones & still them the- watter is good for Childre that are sick. thus you may dow with Rasberies which is more pleasant.

Contributor

Abu-Bader, Nagham
Le, Vincent

Source

Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Publisher

George Mason University Libraries

Rights

Public domain. There are no known restrictions.