Mash the currants well and strain through a linen towel. Add a gallon
of water to every gallon of juice. Allow three pounds sugar to every
gallon of the mixture. Put in a cask and cork loosely till
fermentation is over. Bottle in September.--_Mrs. Dr. S._
_Currant Wine._
To one gallon well picked and washed currants, add one gallon water.
Let it stand twenty-four hours, then strain through a flax linen
cloth. Add to a gallon of juice and water three pounds brown sugar.
Let it stand fourteen days in a clean, open cask.--_Mrs. Dr. E._
CHERRY WINE.
Measure the berries and bruise them, adding to every gallon one quart
boiling water. Let it stand twenty-four hours, stirring occasionally.
Then strain off the liquor, put in a jar, adding two pounds sugar to
every gallon. Stop tightly, and let it stand till the next October,
when it will be fit for use without straining or boiling.
STRAWBERRY WINE.
Mash the berries and add to each gallon of fruit a half-gallon boiling
water. Let it stand twenty-four hours, then strain and add three
pounds brown sugar to each gallon juice. Let it stand thirty-six
hours, skimming the impurities that rise to the top. Put in a cask,
reserving some to add as it escapes from the cask. Fill each morning.
Cork and seal tightly after the fermentation is over.--_Mrs. E._
ORANGE WINE.
One gallon juice of sour oranges, four gallons water, twenty pounds
sugar. Boil it and clarify with the whites of two eggs; skim the
liquid till the scum has disappeared. Pour into a vessel of suitable
size, taking the precaution to first strain it through flannel. Add
three-quarters of a bottle of raw juice and let it ferment. Bottle in
six months. Put less sugar if you prefer a wine less sweet.--_Mrs. N._
CIDER WINE.
One gallon sweet cider, three pounds sugar. Put in a cask and let it
ferment. Keep the vessel full so that it will run over. Let it stand
fifteen days. Put the corks in a little tighter every day. Let it
stand three months, then bottle and seal up.--_Mrs. E. B._
TOMATO WINE.
Pick small, ripe tomatoes off the stems, put them in a clean bucket or
tub, mash well, and strain through a linen rag (a bushel will make
five gallons of juice). Add from two and a half to three pounds brown
sugar to each gallon. Put in a cask and let it ferment like raspberry
wine. If two gallons water be added to a bushel of tomatoes, the wine
will be as good.--_Mrs. A. D._
EGGNOG.
To each egg one tablespoonful of sugar, one wine-glassful of milk, one
wine-glassful of liquor. The sugar and yolks to be well beaten
together, and the whites (well beaten) added by degrees. To twelve
eggs, put eight glassfuls of brandy and four of wine. Put the liquor
in the yolks and sugar, stirring slowly all the time; then add the
whites, and lastly the milk.--_Mrs. F._
_Eggnog._
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