Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Raspberry Royal. ✠

• 4 quarts ripe berries.
• 1 quart best cider vinegar.
• 1 lb. white sugar.
• 1 pint fine brandy.

Put the berries in a stone jar, pour the vinegar over them, add the sugar, and pound the berries to a paste with a wooden pestle, or mash with a spoon. Let them stand in the sun four hours; strain and squeeze out all the juice, and put in the brandy. Seal up in bottles; lay them on their sides in the cellar, and cover with sawdust.

Stir two tablespoonfuls into a tumbler of ice-water when you wish to use it.