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Title: The Cyder-Maker's Instructor, Sweet-Maker's Assistant, and Victualler's and Housekeeper's Director
In Three Parts

Author: Thomas Chapman

Release Date: March 18, 2005 [EBook #15407]

Language: English

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THE

CYDER-MAKER'S INSTRUCTOR,

Sweet-Maker's Assistant,

And Victualler's and Housekeeper's

DIRECTOR.

IN THREE PARTS.

* * * * *

PART I.

Directs the grower to make his cyder in the manner foreign wines are
made; to preserve its body and flavour; to lay on a colour, and to
cure all its disorders, whether bad flavour'd, prick'd, oily, or ropy.

PART II.

Instructs the trader or housekeeper to make raisin-wines, at a small
Expence, little (if any thing) inferior to foreign wines in strength
or flavour; to cure their disorders; to lay on them new bodies,
colour, &c.

PART III.

Directs the brewer to fine his beer and ale in a short time, and to
cure them if prick'd or ropy.

To which is added, A Method to make yest to ferment beer, as well as
common yest, when that is not to be had.

All actually deduced from the AUTHOR'S experience.

By THOMAS CHAPMAN, _Wine-Cooper_.

LONDON, Printed: BOSTON, Re-printed and Sold by GREEN & RUSSELL, in
Queen-Street, MDCCLXII.

[Price One Shilling.]

THE PREFACE.

It may be thought necessary, in compliance with custom, that I should
say something by way of PREFACE. If the reader would be informed what
my reasons were for appearing in print, I shall candidly acknowledge,
that the great prospect of a considerable advantage to myself was
indeed the strongest persuasive; but I can with equal truth affirm,
that it affords me no small pleasure to think I am doing my country at
the same time a very great piece of service; and doubt not but that,
as man