The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private FamiliesEaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
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The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families
Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
Cooking, English; Formulas, recipes, etc.; Home economics
GINGER WINE. To seven gallons of water put nineteen pounds of moist
sugar, and boil it for half an hour, taking off the scum as it rises.
Then take a small quantity of the liquor, and add to it nine ounces of
the best ginger bruised. Put it all together, and when nearly cold, chop
nine pounds of raisins very small, and put them into a nine gallon cask,
with one ounce of isinglass. Slice four lemons into the cask, taking out
all the seeds, and pour the liquor over them, with half a pint of fresh
yeast. Leave it unstopped for three weeks, and in about three months it
will be fit for bottling. There will be one gallon of the sugar and
water more than the cask will hold at first: this must be kept to fill
up as the liquor works off, as it is necessary that the cask should be
kept full, til it has done working. The raisins should be two thirds
Malaga, and one third Muscadel. Spring and autumn are the best seasons
for making this wine.--Another. Boil nine quarts of water with six
pounds of lump sugar, the rinds of two or three lemons very thinly
pared, and two ounces of bruised white ginger. Let it boil half an hour,
and skim it well. Put three quarters of a pound of raisins into the
cask; and when the liquor is lukewarm, turn it, adding the juice of two
lemons strained, with a spoonful and a half of yeast. Stir it daily,
then put in half a pint of brandy, and half an ounce of isinglass
shavings. Stop it up, and bottle it in six or seven weeks. The lemon
peel is not to be put into the barrel.
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