The Cyder-Maker's Instructor, Sweet-Maker's Assistant, and Victualler's and Housekeeper's Director: In Three PartsChapman, Thomas (Wine cooper)
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The Cyder-Maker's Instructor, Sweet-Maker's Assistant, and Victualler's and Housekeeper's Director: In Three Parts
Chapman, Thomas (Wine cooper)
Cider; Cooking (Cider); Liquors; Wine and wine making
Take two gallons of lac, and two ounces of isinglass, boil them a
quarter of an hour; strain the liquor, and let it stand 'till it
is cold; then break it well with your whisk, and put four pounds of
alabaster and three pounds of whiting to it. Stir them well together,
and add one ounce of salt of tartar to the whole. Mix by degrees some
of the wine with it, so as to dilute it to a thin liquor. Apply this
to the cask, and stir it well with your paddle. This will immediately
discharge the acid part from it, as was said before.
When it is off and quite down, bung it up for three days, then
rack it, and you'll find part of its body gone off by the strong
fermentation. To remedy this, you must lay a fresh body on it in
proportion to the degree to which it hath been lower'd by the above
process; always having special care not to alter flavour. And this
must be done with clarified sugar; for no fluid body will agree with
it but what will make it thinner, or confer its own taste; therefore
the following is the best manner.
To lay a fresh body on the WINES.
Take three quarters of a hundred of brown sugar, and put into your
copper, then put a gallon of lime water to it, to keep it from
burning. Keep stirring it about 'till it boils; then take three eggs
and mash all together with the Shells, which put to the sugar. Stir
it about, and as the scum or filth arise take it off. When quite clean
put it into your can, and let it stand 'till it is cold before you use
it. Then break it with the whisk by degrees, with about ten gallons of
the wine, and apply it to the pipe. Work it with your paddle for half
an hour; then put one quart of _stum forcing_ to it, which will unite
their bodies, and likewise make it fine and bright. You must keep it
bung'd very close.
To cure RAISIN WINES that are cloudy.
These wines, if they take a chill, are affected in the same manner
with Port-wines. Like them they will be cloudy, and will have a
floating lee in them, which by shaking in a glass will rise in clouds.
If any thing be apply'd to it cold, it will strike a greater chill
upon it, and change its true colour to a pale or deep blue one; to
prevent which, and take off the chill, you must,
_For a Pipe_,
Take one gallon of lac and one ounce of isinglass broke in small
pieces, three pounds of alabaster, two ounces of sweet spirit of
nitre; boil them together for five or six minutes; Stir them and apply
to the pipe as hot as possible. Stir it well in the pipe with your
paddle, and in about two hours after, bung it close up. Let it lay
five or six days, and you'll find it quite fine and bright.
This will make it a little flat, to remedy which you must rack it
clean from it's bottoms, and throw a quart of _stum forcing_ to it.
To colour RAISIN WINES.
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