Cornish Recipes > Rare Old Blackberry Drink

How to make rare old blackberry drink:
An old fashioned, warming winter drink.



Ingredients

6 cups blackberries
1 pint vinegar
6 cloves for every pint of juice
1/2 inch piece root ginger for every pint of juice
2 cups sugar for every pint of juice
(see measure conversions for more information)

Method

- Soak the blackberries in the vinegar for 24 hours.
- Strain and add the cloves, sugar and ginger.
- Boil for half an hour.
- Strain and bottle.


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