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Welsh Nectar

Name: Welsh Nectar
Ingredients: 1 lb. of raisins; 3 lemons; 2 lbs. of loaf sugar; 2 gallons of boiling water

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Wassail

Colonial drink

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Time: 4 or 5 days

Sufficient to make 2 gallons

Ingredients

1 lb. of raisins
3 lemons
2 lbs. of loaf sugar
2 gallons of boiling water

Directions

Cut the peel of the lemons very thin

Pour upon it the boiling water

When cool, add the strained juice of the lemons, the sugar, and the raisins, stoned and chopped very fine

Let it stand 4 or 5 days, stirring it every day

Then strain it through a jelly-bag, and bottle it for present use

Source: The Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton (1859)

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