Sangria
Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), page 32. Vision transcription from the scanned page; needs review.
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Ingredients
- 1 lemon
- 1 orange
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 750-milliliter bottle dry red or white wine, chilled
- 1 to 2 cups carbonated water, chilled
- 2 tablespoons brandy
- Ice cubes
Instructions
- Cut lemon and orange into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Place the 4 end slices from the lemon and orange in a saucepan; set aside remaining slices. For syrup, add sugar and water to the saucepan. Bring to boiling, stirring till sugar dissolves.
- Remove from heat; cool. Squeeze juice from cooked fruit into the syrup. Discard cooked fruit.
- In a pitcher combine remaining fruit slices, syrup, wine, carbonated water, and brandy. Serve over ice.
- Microwave directions: Cut fruit as above. In a 2-cup measure micro-cook fruit end slices, sugar, and water, uncovered, on 100% power (high) for 2 to 3 minutes or till boiling, stirring once. Continue as above.
Source and image provenance
Historical recipe source: Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), Meredith Corporation. View the cited page at the Internet Archive.
Image credit: Image attribution: "Sangria close-up.jpg" by Lionel Allorge; license: CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0); source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sangria_close-up.jpg. Cropped/resized.
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