Cherry Shrub

Ingredients

• ripe morello cherries
• 1 gill brandy
• sugar

Instructions

1. Gather ripe morello cherries, pick them from the stalk, and put them in an earthen pot, which must be set into an iron pot of water.
2. Make the water boil, but take care that none of it gets into the cherries.
3. When the juice is extracted, pour it into a bag made of tolerably thick cloth, which will permit the juice to pass, but not the pulp of your cherries.
4. Sweeten it to your taste; and when it becomes perfectly clear, bottle it.
5. Put a gill of brandy into each bottle, before you pour in the juice.
6. Cover the corks with rosin.
7. It will keep all summer, in a dry cool place, and is delicious mixed with water.