Mrs Beetons Drinks Recipes Revisited
Homemade Noyeau
2˝lt (4 pints) Milk
1.1lt (2 pints) Irish Whiskey or Gin
450g (1lb) Caster Sugar
50g (2oz) Bitter Almonds
25g (1oz) Sweet Almonds
3 Lemons, rinds only
1 tbsp Clarified Honey
Blanch and pound the almonds.
Mix with them the sugar.
Boil the milk.
Allow it stand until quite cold.
Mix all the ingredients together.
Let them stand for 10 days, shaking them every day.
Filter the mixture through blotting paper.
Bottle off for use in small bottles and seal the corks.
This will be found useful for flavouring many sweet dishes.
Sufficient to make about 24 pints of Noyeau.
Seasonable: May be made at any time.
HOME-MADE NOYEAU
1825. INGREDIENTS - 2 oz. of bitter almonds, 1 oz. of sweet ditto, 1 lb. of loaf sugar, the rinds of 3 lemons, 1 quart of Irish whiskey or gin, 1 tablespoonful of clarified honey, 4 pint of new milk.
Mode - Blanch and pound the almonds, and mix with them the sugar, which should also be pounded. Boil the milk; let it stand till quite cold; then mix all the ingredients together, and let them remain for 10 days, shaking them every day. Filter the mixture through blotting-paper, bottle off for use in small bottles, and seal the corks down. This will be found useful for flavouring many sweet dishes.
Average cost, 2s. 9d.
Sufficient to make about 24 pints of Noyeau.
Seasonable - May be made at any time.
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