1891 Drinks à La Mode by Mrs de Salis

DRINKS A LA MODE

6o

Zante Syrup. Take four pounds of currants, wash and pick them free from stalks and pips, pound them in a mortar, and add gradually one gallon of water. Boil on the fire for twenty minutes, then stram, and to every pint of juice add three-quarters of a pound of sugar ; bring to the boil, and when cold bottle. Black currant syrup is treated in the same way.