Produced by S.R.Ellison, Robert Cicconetti, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE CYDER-MAKER'S INSTRUCTOR, Sweet-Maker's Assistant, And Victualler's and Housekeeper's DIRECTOR. IN THREE PARTS. * * * * * PART I. Directs the grower to make his cyder in the manner foreign wines are made; to preserve its body and flavour; to lay on a colour, and to cure all its disorders, whether bad flavour'd, prick'd, oily, or ropy. PART II. Instructs the trader or housekeeper to make raisin-wines, at a small Expence, little (if any thing) inferior to foreign wines in strength or flavour; to cure their disorders; to lay on them new bodies, colour, &c. PART III. Directs the brewer to fine his beer and ale in a short time, and to cure them if prick'd or ropy. To which is added, A Method to make yest to ferment beer, as well as common yest, when that is not to be had. All actually deduced from the AUTHOR'S experience. By THOMAS CHAPMAN, _Wine-Cooper_. LONDON, Printed: BOSTON, Re-printed and Sold by GREEN & RUSSELL, in Queen-Street, MDCCLXII. [Price One Shilling.] THE PREFACE. It may be thought necessary, in compliance with custom, that I should say something by way of PREFACE. If the reader would be informed what my reasons were for appearing in print, I shall candidly acknowledge, that the great prospect of a considerable advantage to myself was indeed the strongest persuasive; but I can with equal truth affirm, that it affords me no small pleasure to think I am doing my country at the same time a very great piece of service; and doubt not but that, as many will soon experience it, my labour will be thankfully received and acknowledged. Discoveries and Improvements ought not to be concealed; the public good calls loudly for them; but then, in return for the great advantage the public receives from them, the author of any such discovery may with the greatest justice claim an adequate reward. PREFACE The following Receipts and Directions are not collected from books, nor interspersed with old women's nostrums; but they are, in very truth, the result of my own LONG EXPERIENCE in trade, founded on chemical principles, which are principles of never-erring nature. Perhaps I had never thought of this Method of communicating my little knowledge, had it not been for many gentlemen in the counties of _Gloucester, Hereford, Worcester_, &c. for whom I have done a great deal of business, in the cyder-way particularly; and who have often express'd their desire of seeing my directions for the management of cyders, &c. made public. And no doubt such a thing was wanting; for it's hardly credible how much liquors of almost every kind is spoiled by mismanagement. Few people know the nature of fermentation, without which no vinous spirit can be produced; nor any liquor be rendered fine and potible.