Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Then pour it into a keg of proper size for containing it, and let it
ferment at the bung-hole; filling it up as it works out with some of
the liquor reserved for that purpose. As soon as it ceases to hiss,
stop it close with a cloth wrapped round the bung. A pint of white
brandy for every gallon of the gooseberry wine may be added on bunging
it up. At the end of four or five months it will probably be fine
enough to bottle off. It is best to bottle it in cold frosty weather.
You may refine it by allowing to every gallon of wine the whites of two
eggs, beaten to a froth, with a very small tea-spoonful of salt. When
the white of egg, &c, is a stiff froth, take out a quart of the wine,
and mix them well together. Then pour it into the cask, and in a few
days it will be fine and clear. You may begin to use it any time after
it is bottled. Put two or three raisins in the bottom of each bottle.
They will tend to keep the wine from any farther fermentation.
Fine gooseberry wine has frequently passed for champagne. Keep the
bottles in saw-dust, lying on their sides.
CURRANT WINE.
Take four gallons of ripe currants; strip them from the stalks into a
great stone jar that has a cover to it, and mash them with a long thick
stick. Let them stand twenty-four hours; then put the currants into a
large linen bag; wash out the jar, set it under the bag, and squeeze
the juice into it. Boil together two gallons and a half of water, and
five pounds and a half of the best loaf-sugar, skimming it well. When
the scum ceases to rise, mix the syrup with the currant juice. Let it
stand a fortnight or three weeks to settle; and then transfer it to
another vessel, taking care not to disturb the lees or dregs. If it is
not quite clear and bright, refine it by mixing with a quart of the
wine, (taken out for the purpose,) the whites of two eggs beaten to a
stiff froth, and half an ounce of cream of tartar. Pour this gradually
into the vessel. Let it stand ten days, and then bottle it off. Place
the bottles in saw-dust, laying them on their sides. Take care that the
saw-dust is not from pine wood. The wine will be fit to drink in a
year, but is better when three or four years old.
You may add a little brandy to it when you make it; allowing a quart of
brandy to six gallons of wine.
RASPBERRY WINE.
Put four gallons of ripe raspberries into a stone jar, and mash them
with a round stick. Take four gallons of soft water, (measured after it
has boiled an hour,) and strain it warm over the raspberries. Stir it
well and let it stand twelve hours. Then strain it through a bag, and
to every gallon of liquor put three pounds of loaf-sugar. Set it over a
clear fire, and boil and skim it till the scum ceases to rise. When it
is cold bottle it. Open the bottles every day for a fortnight, closing
them again in a few minutes. Then seal the corks, and lay the bottles
on their sides in saw-dust, which must not be from pine wood.
ELDERBERRY WINE.
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