The Duchess of Northumberland's Little Book of Cocktails, Cordials and Elixirs E-Book

The Duchess of Northumberland

• Herausgeber: The History Press
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 30

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Found in the archive at Alnwick Castle, this little book features some of the oldest recipes for cocktails and cordials ever recorded. As well as tasting delicious, many of them have health-giving properties to treat everyday ailments such as asthma, weakness, balm and lip salve. To make Raspberry Wine: Take ripe Raspberries bruise them with the back of a spoon, strain them, and fill a Bottle with the Juice stop it but not very close, and set it by 4 or 5 Days: then pour it off from the Dregs, and add thereto as much Rhenish or White Wine, as the Juice will well colour; that done sweeten your Wine with Loaf Sugar, and bottle it up for Use.

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

INTRODUCTION

DANDELION TEA

CORDIAL TULIP

LIME WATER

TO MAKE 4 QUARTS OF BARLEY WATER

ELEANOR FITZ-JAMES’ BOOK OF RECEIPTS, 1667

TO MAKE COWSLIPE WINE

AQUA MIRABILIS

A CORDIALL WATTER CALLED TREAKELL WATER

A CORDIALL WATTER

KATHERINE STEPHEN’S RECIPE BOOK, 1641

TO MAKE SWEETE WATER

TO MAKE SIRUPE OF VIOLETTS

TO MAKE SPIRIT OF ROSES

FIRST DUCHESS’ RECIPE BOOK

TO MAKE RAISIN WINE

NETTLE WATER

NETTLE WATER

PEPPER MINT WATER

SPEAR MINT WATER

MINT WATER

CARDAMOM SEED WATER TO ASIST DIGESTION AND STRENGTHEN THE STOMACH

DILL SEED WATER

ORANGE FLOWER WATER

LEMON WATER

CARRAWAY WATER

CITRON WATER

JESSAMINE WATER

FATHER ANDREW’S WATER

BIRCH WINE

APRICOCK WINE

TO MAKE COWSLIP WINE

COWSLIP WINE

TO MAKE APRICOCK WINE

TO MAKE ELDER FLOWER WINE

TO MAKE PERRY

TOKAY

RASPBERRY WINE

TO MAKE QUINCE WINE

RAISIN WINE

BIRCH WINE

TO MAKE DAMSON WINE

OTHER RECIPES

THE BITTER TINCTURE

TINCTURE FOR AN ASTHMA

MILK WATER FOR A CONSUMPTION

A GREAT STRENGTHNER AFTER MISCARIAGES OR ANY OTHER WEAKNESS

ELDER WATER

A VERY GOOD LIP SALVE

MRS OWENS MILK WATER

TO MAKE WHITE ELDERBERRY WINE

COWSLIP WINE

TO MAKE MEAD

TO MAKE SACK MEAD

TO MAKE AN EXCELLENT BITTER

ELDER WINE

A RECEIPT TO MAKE BALM WATER OR EAU DE CARME

DEADLY JANE

COPYRIGHT

INTRODUCTION

BY THE DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND

The Alnwick Garden gives pleasure in so many ways to so many people from all walks of life. It has become a contemporary pleasure garden, which brings joy to millions. Part of the pleasure is to be found at the Treehouse, which I opened in 2004. It is one of the largest treehouses in the world. Enormous and beautifully crafted, the Treehouse is built from sustainably sourced Canadian cedar, Scandinavian redwood, and English and Scots pine. It sits high in the treetops in a copse of mature lime trees and looks as if it’s been there forever.

At the heart of the Treehouse is one of the most beautiful and unique restaurants anywhere in the world. There’s a roaring log fire in the centre of the room, trees growing through the floor, handcrafted furniture and screens created from fallen branches.

I have always liked cocktails and the Treehouse provided a perfect opportunity to develop a range to serve to the patrons of its restaurant. So in May 2012 I launched a series of four fun cocktails using my name: Delicious Jane, a vodka and grapefruit juice cocktail; Deadly Jane, a rum, orange and pineapple juice cocktail served in a poison bottle; Desirable Jane, a Bacardi- and lime-based cocktail; and Dirty Jane, a vodka and raspberry cocktail. All these are very popular although the best loved is the Deadly Jane.

All of this triggered an idea to produce a cocktail book and when I came to look through the archive at Alnwick Castle, I was surprised by the amount of recipes to be found there. So abundant were they that I have extended the selection from cocktails to include cordials and elixirs. So this little book features some of the oldest recipes for cocktails and cordials ever recorded.

I have gathered the best and most appropriate ones here for you to mix. As well as tasting delicious (not all of them!), many of them have health-giving properties to treat everyday ailments such as asthma, weakness, balm and lip salve. The cordial to bring out measles and smallpox is fascinating, containing Methridate – the universal antidote to or preservative against poison and disease!

CHEERS!

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