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The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
Digby, Kenelm
Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665; Liquors; Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800
When small Ale hath wrought sufficiently, draw into bottles; but first put
into every bottle twelve good raisins of the Sun split and stoned; Then
stop up the bottle close, and set it in sand (gravel) or a cold dry Cellar.
After a while this will drink exceeding quick and pleasant. Likewise take
six Wheat-corns, and bruise them, and put into a bottle of Ale; it will
make it exceeding quick and stronger.
TO MAKE CIDER
Take a Peck of Apples, and slice them, and boil them in a barrel of water,
till the third part be wasted; Then cool your water as you do for wort, and
when it is cold, you must pour the water upon three measures of grown
Apples. Then draw forth the water at a tap three or four times a day, for
three days together. Then press out the Liquor, and Tun it up; when it hath
done working, then stop it up close.
A VERY PLEASANT DRINK OF APPLES
Take about fifty Pippins; quarter and core them, without paring them: for
the paring is the Cordialest part of them. Therefore onely wipe or wash
them well, and pick away the black excrescence at the top; and be sure to
leave out all the seeds, which are hot. You may cut them (after all the
superfluities are taken away) into thinner slices, if you please. Put three
Gallons of Fountain water to them in a great Pipkin, and let them boil,
till the Apples become clear and transparent; which is a sign, they are
perfectly tender, and will be in a good half hour, or a little more. Then
with your Ladle break them into Mash and Pulpe, incorporated with the
water; letting all boil half an hour longer, that the water may draw into
it self all the vertue of the Apples. Then put to them a pound and a half
of pure dubble refined Sugar in powder, which will soon dissolve in that
hot Liquor. Then pour it into an Hippocras bag, and let it run through it
two or three times, to be very clear. Then put it up into bottles; and
after a little time, it will be a most pleasant, quick, cooling, smoothing
drink. Excellent in sharp Gonorrhoeas.
SIR PAUL NEALE'S WAY OF MAKING CIDER
The best Apples make the best Cider, as Pearmains, Pippins, Golden-pippins,
and the like. Codlings make the finest Cider of all. They must be ripe,
when you make Cider of them: and is in prime in the Summer season, when no
other Cider is good. But lasteth not long, not beyond Autumn. The
foundation of making perfect Cyder consisteth in not having it work much,
scarce ever at all; but at least, no second time; which Ordinary Cider doth
often, upon change of weather, and upon motion: and upon every working it
grows harder. Do then thus:
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