Lemon brandy
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Lemon brandy
English Housewifery Exemplified 
1764
Home brewery, Wines etc (n/a)
Brandy
Lemon peel
Water
Sugar
Blue Milk
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Instructions
| Pour a gallon of brandy into an earthen pot, put to it the yellow peel of two dozen lemons, let it stand two days and two nights, then pour two quarts of spring water into a pan and dissolve in it two pounds of refined loaf sugar, boil it a quarter of an hour, and put it to the brandy; then boil and scum three gills of blue milk, and mix all together, let it stand two days more, then run it through a flannel bag, or a paper within a tunnel, and bottle it. |
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Date added: 2008/11/30
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