Take of cold soft water, 11 gallons, fruit 8 do. Ferment. Mix, treacle, 14 or 16 lbs. tartar, in powder, 1 oz. Put in ginger, in powder, 4 oz. sweet herbs, 2 handsful: then add spirits, 1 or 2 quarts. This will make 18 gallons. 161. COMPOUND WINE. An excellent family wine may be made of equal parts of red, white, and black currants, ripe cherries, and raspberries, well bruised, and mixed with soft water, in the proportion of 4 lbs. of fruit to 1 gallon of water. When strained and pressed, 3 lbs. of moist sugar are to be added to each gallon of liquid. After standing open for three days, during which it is to be stirred frequently, it is to be put into a barrel, and left for a fortnight to work, when a ninth part of the brandy is to be added, and the whole bunged down. In a few months it will be a most excellent wine. 162. OTHER MIXED FRUITS, OF THE BERRY KIND. Take of cold soft water, 2 gallons. fruit, 18 do. Ferment. Mix, honey, 6 lbs. tartar, in fine powder, 2 oz. Put in peach-leaves, 6 handsful; then add brandy, 1 gallon. This will make 18 gallons. 163. WHITE CURRANT WINE. Take of cold soft water, 9 gallons, white currants, 9 gallons, white gooseberries, 1 do. Ferment. Mix, refined sugar, 25 lbs. white tartar, in powder, 1 oz. clary seed, bruised, 2 oz. or clary flowers, or sorrel flowers, 4 handsful; then add, white brandy, 1 gallon. This will make 18 gallons. 164. _Another._ Take of cold soft water, 10 gallons, white currants, 10 do. Ferment. Mix, refined sugar, 25 lbs. white tartar, in fine powder, 1 oz. then add, bitter almonds, 2 oz. and white brandy, 1 gallon. This will make 18 gallons. 165. BLACK CURRANT WINE. Take of cold soft water, 10 gallons, black currants, 6 do. strawberries, 3 do. Ferment. Mix, raw sugar, 25 lbs. red tartar, in fine powder, 6 oz. orange thyme, 2 handsful; then add brandy, 2 or 3 quarts. This will make 18 gallons. 166. _Another._ Take of cold soft water, 12 gallons, black currants, 5 do. white or red currants, or both, 3 do. Ferment. Mix, raw sugar, 30 lbs. or less, red tartar, in fine powder, 5 oz. ginger, in powder, 5 oz. then add brandy, 1 gallon, or less. This will make 18 gallons. 167. STRAWBERRY WINE. Take of cold soft water, 7 gallons, cider, 6 do. strawberries, 6 do. Ferment. Mix, raw sugar, 16 lbs. red tartar, in fine powder, 3 oz. the peel and juice of two lemons; then add brandy, 2 or 3 quarts. This will make 18 gallons. 168. _Another._