The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tablesAdams, Samuel, servant
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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables
Adams, Samuel, servant
Home economics; Household employees
Cleanse from the stalks, sixty pounds of Morella cherries, and bruise
them so that the stones shall be broken. Now press out the juice
and mix it with 6 gallons of sherry wine, and four gallons of warm
water. Having grossly powdered separate ounces of nutmeg, cinnamon,
and mace, hang them separately, in small bags, in the cask containing
the mixture. Bung it down, and in a few weeks it will become a
deliciously flavoured wine.
191. PEACH WINE.
Take of cold soft water, 18 gallons,
refined sugar, 25 lbs.
honey, 6 lbs.
white tartar, in fine powder, 2 ounces,
Peaches, sixty or eighty in number.
Ferment.
Then add 2 gallons of brandy.
This will make 18 gallons.
The _first division_ is to be put into the vat, and the day after,
_before_ the peaches are put in take the stones from them, break
them and the kernels, then put them and the pulp into the vat, and
proceed with the general process.
192. PEACH AND APRICOT WINE.
Take peaches, nectarines, &c. pare them, and take the stones out;
then slice them thin, and pour over them from a gallon to two gallons
of water, and a quart of white wine. Place the whole on a fire to
simmer gently for a considerable time, till the sliced fruit becomes
soft; pour off the liquid part into another vessel containing more
peaches that have been sliced but not heated; let them stand for
twelve hours, then pour out the liquid part, and press what remains
through a fine hair bag. Let the whole be now put into a cask to
ferment; add of loaf-sugar, a pound and a half to each gallon. Boil
well, an ounce of beaten cloves in a quart of white wine, and add to
it the above.
Apricot wine may be made by only bruising the fruit and pouring the
hot liquor over it. This wine does not require so much sweetening.
To give it a curious flavour, boil an ounce of mace, and half an
ounce of nutmegs, in a quart of white wine; and when the wine is
fermenting, pour the liquid in hot. In about twenty days, or a month,
these wines will be fit for bottling.
193. APRICOT WINE.
Boil together three pounds of sugar, and three quarts of water; and
skim it well. Put in six pounds of apricots pared and stoned, and let
them boil till they become tender. Then take them up, and when the
liquor is cold, bottle it. After taking out the apricots, let the
liquor be boiled with a sprig of flowered clary. The apricots will
make marmalade, and be very good for present use.
194. LEMON WINE.
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