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Strawberry Shrub

Hull twelve pounds of ripe strawberries, crush and mash them and squeeze the juice from them through a cloth. Put the juice in a pan over the fire together with the strained juice of half a dozen good-sized lemons, bring it to the boil and let it boil fast for five minutes; then add six pounds of loaf sugar and when this has melted let it boil for six minutes longer. Remove it from the fire, let it cool, skimming as it cools, and when quite cold mix in one and one-half pints of brandy or whiskey. Bottle it being very particular to see that the bottles are perfectly clean. They should first be well washed in soda and water and then rinsed out with boiling water. Cork the bottles with new corks soaked in cold water. Cut them off even with the top, seal with sealing-wax or bees-wax and rosin melted together in equal quantities, and lay the bottles on their sides in dry sawdust.