Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

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Syrups

36 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

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…

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