Passion Fruit Cordial

New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 201, 30 April 1943, Page 11

Passion Fruit Cordial

Dear Aunt Daisy, Have you a recipe for a passion fruit cordial? We have hundreds just getting ripe, and as we don’t drink tea, it would be a nice change to have a passion fruit drink.-One of the Daisy Chain (Mt. Roskill). Here is a Passion Fruit Syrup, which you use by putting 2 tablespoons or more in a glass, and filling up with water. Put the pulp from @ dozen (or more) passion fruit. into a large jug, and add 2 teaspoons of citric acid. Make a syrup by boiling together 2 cups of sugar and a pint of water for a few minutes. Pour this over the pulp and stir well. Leave till cold and then strain and bottle. If citric acid is scarce, use the juice of 2 or 3 lemons instead. You had better preserve some of your fine crop of passion fruit. Here is a simple way. Allow % cup of sugar to each cup of passion fruit pulp. Mix well in a big bowl, and leave in a cool pantry for 24 hours, stirring frequently so that the sugar is all dissolved, and to get out aitbubbles. Then bottle and seal airtight. No preservative, and no cooking. Use Scissors Dear Aunt Daisy, Here is a little euggention for the Links in our Daisy Chain. Keep an old pair of scissors for cutting beans, mint and parsley, It is so much quicker than with a knife, and your fingers do not get cut or stained.-From "Christine" (Waiheke).