Old-time Recipes for Home Made Wines, Cordials and Liqueurs from Fruits, Flowers, Vegetables, and Shrubs

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Estes, 1909 - 156 páginas
 

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Página 32 - The cider must be drawn off into very clean sweet casks, and closely watched. The moment the white bubbles before mentioned are perceived rising at the bunghole, rack it again. When the fermentation is completely at an end, fill up the cask with cider, in...
Página 89 - Mix •well with brandy colouring, 1 pint, and fine with bullock's blood. 2. Bullys, 8 pounds ; damsons, 40 pounds ; water, 6 gallons. Boil the •water, skim it, and pour it boiling hot on the fruit ; let it stand four or six days at least. During that time bruise the fruit or squeeze it with your hands. Then draw or pour it off into a cask, and to every gallon of liquor put two pounds and a half of fine sugar, or rather more : put some yeast on a slice of bread (warm) to work it. When done working,...
Página 31 - As the cider runs from the press, let it pass through a hair sieve into a large open vessel, that will hold as much juice as can be expressed in one day. In a day, or sometimes less, the...
Página 95 - ... and the following day do the same, but do not squeeze the fruit, only drain the liquor as dry as you can from it. The last time pass it through a canvass previously wet with vinegar to prevent waste.
Página 96 - Rhubarb, or English Patent Wine.— An agreeable and healthful wine is made from the expressed juice of the garden rhubarb. * To each gal. of juice, add 1 gal. of soft water in which 7 Ibs. of brown sugar have been dissolved ; fill a keg or a barrel with this proportion, leaving the bung out, and keep it filled with sweetened water as it works over, until clear; then bung down or bottle as you desire. These stalks will furnish about three-fourths their weight in juice, or from sixteen hundred to...
Página 56 - ... is to be tunned or put into the cask. Put now into a muslin bag a pound and a half of ginger, bruised, a pound of allspice, two ounces of cinnamon, and four or six ounces of hops; suspend the bag with the spice in the cask by a string, not long enough to let it touch the bottom; let the liquor work in the cask for a fortnight, and fill up in the usual manner. The wine will be fit to tap in two months, and is not improved by keeping like many other wines. Elderberries alone may be used.
Página 59 - Take six gallons of water and twelve pounds of white sugar, and six pounds of raisins of the sun cut small ; boil these together an hour ; then take of the flowers of elder, when they are falling and will shake off, the quantity of half a peck ; put them in the liquor when...
Página 98 - ... of ale yeast; stir all well together, and let it stand in a tub, covered warm, six or seven days, stirring it once a day ; then strain it off, and put it in a runlet. Let it work three or four days, and...
Página 43 - Put him into two quarts of sack, and put to it 3 pounds of raisins of the sun stoned, some blades of mace, and a few cloves. "Put all these into a canvas bag, and a little while before you find the ale has done working, put the ale and bag together into a vessel. In a week or 9 days...

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