Syrups
To Preserve Syrups
The preservation of syrups, as well as of all saccharine solutions, is best promoted by keeping them in a moderately cool, but not a very…
Plain Syrup
Put into a very clean copper, 100 pounds loaf sugar and 3 gallons water; take the white of 12 good eggs, whisk them up to a froth in a pan…
To Bleach Syrup
Syrups may be decolored by agitation with, or filtration through, animal charcoal.
Degrees of Boiling Sugar
In preparing 'sugar for candies, &c., the concomes clear and bright, and the scum as white as milk; then draw your fire, and take it out of…
Gum Syrup
Dissolve 20 pounds best clear white gum-arabic in 4 gallons water nearly boiling hot; take 60 pounds sugar, melt and clarify it with 1…
Imitation Raspberry Syrup
Dissolve 50 pounds white sugar in 10 gallons water; then make an infusion of 1/2 pound powdered orris root in 1/2 gallon boiling water, in…
Parrish's Strawberry Syrup
when the scum rises, put in a little from the quart of cold liquid, and this will make the scum settle; let it raise and settle 3 times…
Cherry Syrup
Take 5 gallons cherry juice; let it ferment a few days; dissolve and boil 80 pounds of sugar; when clear, skim and strain.
Syrup of Orange Peel
Reduce 2 ounces dried orange peel to coarse powder, put it in a small glass percolator, and pour deodorized alcohol slowly on it till 6…
Lemon Syrup (Take gallons lemon juice ounce)
Take 5 gallons lemon juice, 1 ounce best oil of lemons dissolved in 1/22 pint of alcohol; or the rinds of 16 lemons rubbed with sugar to…
Punch Syrup
Digest 8 ounces fresh lemon peel cut in small pieces and bruised, in 12 ounces Jamaica rum for 3 days, and strain. Mix 28 ounces strained…
Orgeat Syrup
Take 10 pounds sweet almonds, 4 pounds bitter almonds; cover them with boiling hot water; let them stand till nearly cold, and peel them by…
Arrack Punch Syrup
Take fruits may have a little gum-arabic added, in 534 pounds sugar; 34 gallons water. Boil up well, then add 14 gallons lemon juice, and…
Simple Syrup (To pounds finest white sugar)
To 8 pounds finest white sugar, add 2 quarts water and the whites of 2 eggs; stir until all the sugar is dissolved; simmer for 2 or 3…
Syrup of Coffee
Take 10 pounds best Java coffee, fresh roasted and ground, well, and strain through a fine flannel bag. and 6 gallons boiling water. Let it…
Cinnamon Syrup
Take 1 ounce oil of Ceylon cinnamon, rubbed and dried up with carbonate of magnesia in a mortar, SO as pounds; water, 1 gallon; isinglass…
Sirop Capillaire
Maidenhair in 3 ounces water) to each gallon. Mix by Syrup. Take 1 pound maidenhair herb, and shaking well in a bottle, then add 4 ounces 5…
Lemon Syrup (Grate off the Strawberry Syrup)
Grate off the 1400. Strawberry Syrup. Strawberry yellow rind of lemons, and beat it up with a juice, 1 pint; simple syrup, 3 pints…
Sarsaparilla Syrup (To gallon simple syrup add)
To 1 gallon simple syrup add 10 drops oil of anise, 20 drops oil of wintergreen, 20 drops oil of sassafras, and 6 ounces caramel, or…
Raspberry Syrup
Make as directed for strawberry syrup, either with the fruit or the essence. The flavor of this syrup is improved by using 1 pint currants…
Sarsaparilla Syrup (Take oil of wintergreen drops)
Take oil of wintergreen, 10 drops; oil of anise, 10 drops; oil of sassafras, 10 drops; fluid extract of sarsaparilla, 2 ounces; simple…
Ginger Syrup (Bruised Jamaica ginger ounces)
Bruised Jamaica ginger, 2 ounces; boiling water, 1 pint; macerate for 4 hours; add fine white sugar, 2 pounds, and strain through a fine…
Pineapple Syrup (Take a convenient number)
Take a convenient number of pineapples, pare and mash them in a marble or porcelain mortar, with a small quantity of sugar; express the…
Ginger Syrup (Tincture of simple syrup pints)
Tincture of simple syrup, 6 pints; mix. Or: Take 1 galginger, 2 fluid ounces; simple syrup, 4 pints; lon expressed pineapple juice; sugar…
Vanilla Syrup (Mix drachms boiling water)
Vanilla, 6 mix. drachms; boiling water, 44 pints; sugar, 4 1407. Wintergreen Syrup. Oil of pounds avoirdupois. Reduce the vanilla to…
Vanilla Syrup (Fluid extract of vanilla ounce)
Fluid extract of vanilla, 1 ounce; citric acid, 4 ounce; simple syrup, 1 gallon; rub the acid with some of the syrup, add the extract of…
Wild Cherry Syrup (Steep ounces wild cherry bark)
Steep 4 ounces wild cherry bark, well bruised, in 1 pint cold water, for 36 hours; press out the infusion; let it stand till clear; decant…
Wild Cherry Syrup (Moisten ounces wild cherry)
Moisten 5 ounces wild cherry bark, in coarse powder, with water, and let it stand for 24 hours in a close vessel. Then pack it firmly in a…
Strawberry Syrup (Take fresh strawberries)
Take fresh strawberries and inclose them in a coarse bag; press out the juice, and to each quart add 1 pint water and 6 pounds white sugar…
Chocolate Syrup
Mix 8 ounces chocolate in 2 pints water, and stir thoroughly over a slow fire. Strain, and add 4 pounds white sugar.
Orange Syrup
Take a convenient number of fresh and ripe oranges, grate off the outside yellow peel; cut the oranges and express the juice; and to each…
Pear Syrup
Make as directed for pineapple syrup, or use the essence of pear, by adding to each gallon of simple syrup 2 tea-spoonfuls essence of pear…
Apple Syrup
Make as directed for pineapple syrup; or with the appropriate fruit essence and acid, as above.
Banana Syrup
Make as directed for pineapple syrup; or with the appropriate fruit essence, as before directed. (See No. 1402.)
Strawberry Syrup (Take fresh Or Take oil)
Take fresh Or: Take oil of banana, 2 drachms; tartaric strawberries, 5 quarts; white sugar, 12 pounds; acid, 1 drachm; simple syrup, 6…
Grape Syrup
Brandy, 1/2 pint; the fruit in layers, and allow the whole to spirits of lemon, 1 ounce; tincture of red stand for several hours; express…