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A cordial is a type of confection in which a fruit filling is placed within a chocolate shell. A well known confectionery of this type is the cherry cordial.
The liquid center found in some cordials is made using invertase to hydrolyze sucrose in the filling, a process which can take up to two weeks. Some fillings include cherry, strawberry, raspberry and blueberry.
A cordial is any invigorating and stimulating preparation that is intended for a medicinal purpose. The term derives from an obsolete usage. Various concoctions were formerly created that were believed to be beneficial to one's health, especially for the heart (cor in Latin).
Some cordials, with their flecks of gold leaf and bright yellow hue, took their name from the 'cordial vertues' of the rays of the sun, which some alchemists thought they contained.
Most cordials were of European origin, first produced in Italian apothecaries during the Renaissance where the art of distilling was refined during the 15th and 16th centuries. It is from this origin that cordials are frequently referred to in French as Liqueurs d’ltalie, it is also from this that we have liqueurs. From the Renaissance onwards, cordials were usually based on alcohol in which certain herbs, spices or other ingredients were allowed to steep. The first cordials arrived in England in the late 15th century and were called distilled cordial waters. These were strictly used as alcoholic medicines, prescribed in small doses to invigorate and revitalise the heart, body and spirit as well as cure diseases. By the 18th century cordials were being imbided for their intoxicating effects and medicinal virtues, and were fast becoming recreational drinks, eventually evolving into liqueurs.
I'm out of faith, I'm in retrograde
A dizzy pattern in a cheap parade
And I'm losing touch but I'm, I'm not ashamed
Of what I say or how nice I play
I'm a Trojan horse made of paper mache
What has been ever comes 'round again
And I'm under a rain, I'm shutting down
I'm unimpressed but I've done my best
An undecided heart makes such a mess
I'm out of place, I'm a different state
A little scattered by a bitter fate
And I'm losing touch but I'm, I'm not afraid
I'll be okay just in a different way
I have no remorse, I have no more shame
Oh, nothing ever ends before it begins
'Cause I'm under a rain, I'm shutting down
I'm unimpressed but I've done my best
An undecided heart makes such a mess
Well, I'll be going 'round and 'round
This cycle won't slow down
I'm looking for the center of this life I've found
What has been ever comes 'round again?
'Cause I'm under a rain, I'm shutting down
I'm unimpressed but I've done my best
An undecided heart makes such a mess
And I'm under a rain, I'm shutting down
I'm unimpressed, I've done my best