[Sca-cooks] Re: Gilly water

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 10:28 AM 8/8/2004, you wrote:
>Someone had asked about what gilly water is. Gillies are the old-fashioned 
>term for carnations. Actually, today's carnations are just bred-up 
>gillyflowers. Old-fashioned gillies are smaller, with an intensely spicy 
>fragrance, quite nice. They're traditional English cottage garden flowers. 
>In Potter stories, gillywater is a drink, but the flowers do have a 
>history of being used as a flavoring in wines and ales.

Yes, I'd remembered what the flowers were, but I didn't know that they were 
used in ales, etc. I did know that costmary is.

So I wonder if gillies can be made into/infused into hard liquor? An 
infusion? Uh...

'Lainie
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