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Currant Shrub

Name: Currant Shrub
Ingredients: enough currants to make 2 quarts juice; 1 pound of double-refined sugar; 1 gallon rum

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Currant juice and rum

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Ingredients

enough currants to make 2 quarts juice
1 pound of double-refined sugar
1 gallon rum

Directions

Pick the currants from the stalksB

ruise them in a marble mortar

Run the juice through a flannel bag until there is 2 quarts of juice

Take the clear juice and dissolve in it the sugar

Add the rum

Filter it through a flannel bag till quite fine

Source: The Lady's Own Cookery Book by Charlotte Campbell Bury (1844)

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