Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Take Sower grapes pound them and press them through a hair bag as you
do Sider. & to every 4 Gallons put as much Allom as a walnut then boyle
it well and Scumme it as the Scumme riseth as clean as possible then
Coole it and when through coole put it into a vessel and when Stale use
of it and it will be very good vinegar.
7. _To make Goosbery or Currant Wine._
Take 2 Gallons of Spring water Set it over the fire boyle it a little
then put 4 pound of powder Sugar let it boyle and Scume it well take
it off and Strain it and when it is as coole as wort put 2 spoonfulls
of barm to it let it worke a little then to every gallon of water put
5 quarts of Goosberys or currants first hand pick’t and bruised put
it in a little barrell & stir it once a day & keep it close Stopt let
it stand 3 or 4 days and when you once begin to See it Sink Strain it
through a jelly bag and put it in the Cask being waished out with the
Same liquor Stop it up very close & when you think it may be fine draw
it off into bottles.
8. _To make Methegline._
Take 12 quarts of honey to 12 gallons and a pottle of water and a
fagott of these following herbs Sweet bryer Sweet marjerrom, rosemary
and muskecouise of each a small handfull and boyle them in the water
and honey all the time it boyles and that must be a full hour, keep
scumming of it clean, then take a bag of these following Spices
nutmegs, Cloves mace and cinament, a quarter of an ounce of each but
most of nutmegs tie them up in a bag with a bullet in it that may cause
it to Sink into the middle of your liquor as it boyles, and let it
boyle above a quarter of an hour, then take it off and take out the
herbs and Spices and Set Some a cooling, and when as coole as wort put
in about half a pint of Ale barm, and when coole enough and that it
hath got a good head tun it up as you do Ale, or other liquors, and
when it hath done workeing hang in again the Same bag of Spices you
took out into your barrell Stope it up till it be clear and then bottle
it up.
9. _A Plaister for ye Spleen to be made in May._
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