ns you can get, strip and break them in
your hand, whilst you break all the berries; to every quart of pulp
take a quart of water, let the water be boiled and cold again, mix them
well together, let them stand all night in your tub, then strain them
thro' a hair-sieve, and to every gallon put two pounds and a half of
six-penny sugar; when your sugar is dissolved, put it into your barrel,
dissolve a little isinglass, whisk it with whites of eggs, and put it
in; to every four gallons put in a quart of mountain wine, so bung up
your barrel; when it is fine draw it off, and take off the grounds,
(but don't tap the barrel over low at the bottom) wash out the barrel
with a little of your wine, and drop the grounds thro' a bag, then put
it to the rest of your wine, and put it all into your barrel again, to
every gallon add half a pound more sugar, and let it stand another week
or two; if it be too sweet let it stand a little longer, then bottle
it, and it will keep two or three years.
307. _To make_ ORANGE ALE.
Take forty seville oranges, pare and cut them in slices, the best
coloured seville you can get, put them all with the juice and seeds
into half a hogshead of ale; when it is tunned up and working, put in
the oranges, and at the same time a pound and a half of raisins of the
sun stoned; when it has done working close up the bung, and it will be
ready to drink in a month.
308. _To make_ ORANGE BRANDY.
Take a quart of brandy, the peels of eight oranges thin pared, keep
them in the brandy forty-eight hours in a close pitcher, then take
three pints of water, put into it three quarters of a pound of loaf
sugar, boil it till half be consumed, and let it stand till cold, then
mix it with the brandy.
309. _To make_ ORANGE WINE.
Take six gallons of water and fifteen pounds of powder sugar, the
whites of six eggs well beaten, boil them three quarters of an hour,
and skim them while any skim will rise; when it is cold enough for
working, put to it six ounces of the syrrup of citron or lemons, and
six spoonfuls of yeast, beat the syrrup and yeast well together, and
put in the peel and juice of fifty oranges, work it two days and a
night, then tun it up into a barrel, so bottle it at three or four
months old.
310. _To make_ COWSLIP WINE.
Take ten gallons of water, when it is almost at boiling, add to it
twenty one pounds of fine powder sugar, let it boil half an hour, and
skim it very clean; when it is boil
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