The Recipe for Raspberry Cordial From Anne of Green Gables

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In the book, Anne Shirley invites her best friend Diana to her house for afternoon tea. She has permission to serve raspberry cordial with a fruit cake but mistakenly serves a currant wine to Diana Barry who becomes drunk.

What was supposed to be a rite of passage of sorts; they are able to have a tea party alone in the house; becomes a debacle. Poor Anne is forbidden to ever see her friend again and is banned from the upcoming church social.

You can certainly understand the mix-up as both the homemade raspberry cordial and the bottle of currant wine would have had a ruby-red appearance.

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My recipe for raspberry cordial is basically a simple syrup infused with raspberries and turned into raspberry syrup. This is a very sweet concoction so I’ve added lemon juice to my recipe to produce a little bit of a tart drink.

Place 2 cups of water in a large pot and then add equal parts sugar (2 cups) and whisk until the sugar is dissolved. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat. To this mixture add 4 cups of fresh berries and once it returned to a boil, turn the heat down to a simmer and let it cook over low heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Place a fine mesh strainer over a large bowl (I put it in my sink) and slowly pour the raspberry syrup into the strainer. Using a potato masher (I used a muddler) work the raspberries into the strainer so that all of the juice is in the bowl.

The leftover raspberry mixture still in the strainer is thick and sweet. I’m saving it as it would be perfect as a jam or a raspberry topping for ice cream.

I poured 1-1/2 oz of the raspberry juice over ice and then filled the glass with club soda for a refreshing non-alcoholic drink.

Raspberry Cordial Cocktail

Another drink that I concocted was 1-1/2 oz. of the homemade cordial with 1-1/2 oz of Vodka and then add ice and soda water to fille.

You can also fille with champagne or Processco for a very fun refreshing cocktail. Adding champagne elevates this cocktail and makes this a perfect drink for special occasions.

Raspberry Lemonade

Add 2 oz of the syrup, juice from 2 fresh lemons, and fill to the top with water or soda water. Add ice.

You can add vodka, gin, or tequila to this to make it a fun spring/summer cocktail.

If you don’t want to go through the trouble of making a homemade cordial, you could purchase a raspberry cordial in both the non-alcohol or alcohol form at either your local grocery store or at liquor stores.

“I never thought raspberry cordial would set people drunk, Marilla–not even if they drank three big tumblerfuls as Diana did. Oh, it sounds so–so–like Mrs. Thomas’s husband! But I didn’t mean to set her drunk.”

There are so many things you could garnish these drinks with.

• wedge of lemon
• orange peel
• slice of lime
• sprig of mint

I made some fun ice cubes with raspberries and ice. I also tried making ice cubes out of the raspberry cordial but it really didn’t freeze. According to everything I’ve read it can be done and frozen for up to 3 months but I didn’t have any luck.

Maybe I didn’t let it freeze long enough.

If you want some more ideas of the things that I preserve by freezing them into cubes, you can find them HERE.

So it’s no surprise that L.M. Montgomery used this familiar fruit in her tales as an old-fashioned raspberry cordial was obviously something she was familiar with.

Now that it’s starting to warm up, I love having a new refreshing drink to serve to friends and family. Thank you, Anne!

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