Another Way To Make Orange-Wine

Take six gallons of water, twelve pounds of sugar, and the whites of three eggs well beaten; mix them all together, and boil them very well for a full hour, and take off the scum as it rises. Let the liquor stand till it is cold, and then put in the juice of fifty oranges, and the yellow out-fide peel of thirty, with six spoonfuls of yeast; let them work together for two day and two nights, and then put in two quarts of rhenish-wine. Afterwards put it into a vessel and flop it up very close. In six weeks time it will be fit to bottle.

How To Make Cherry-Wine

Take any quantity of cherries deprived of the stalks, that are full ripe, and press out the juice through a hair sieve. To every gallon of this add two pounds of loaf-sugar beaten to powder. When the sugar is dissolved in the juice, put the liquor into a vessel that will just hold it and no more. When it has done working, and ceases to make a noise, flop it up close for three months, and then bottle it off.

How To Make Cowslip-Wine

Take a peck of cowslip flowers, pickt from the cups, and put them into a tub, with the outside peels of fix lemons. Then take fix gallons of water, twelve pounds of sugar, the juice of fix lemons, with the whites of four eggs well beaten. Mix them together, and put them into a kettle well tin'd; boil the liquor for half an hour, taking off the scum as it rises, and pour it boiling hot on the flowers; stir them about till they are almost cold, and then put in a dry toast rubb'd all over with yeast, letting the liquor (land to work for two or three days. After which add fix ounces of the syrup of orange-juice, and then strain it through a coarse cloth. Then let it pass through a flannel bag, and put it in a vessel, letting the bung lie loose for several days, to see if it will work any any more; if nor, bung it up, and let it stand three months before you bottle it.

How To Make Birch-Wine

Bore holes in the body of a birch-tree in the month of March, before the leaves begin to shoot; into which put fawcets of elder-flicks, with the pith taken out. Four or five holes may be made in one tree at the same time : and a vessel must be hung under each to catch the lap that runs through. Bore as many trees as will yield a sufficient quantity the same day; which you must boil as soon as you can; and as long as any scum arises, taking it off as it appears. To every gallon of this liquor add four pounds of sugar, and the outside peel of a lemon; then boil it for half an hour longer, and take off the scum. This done, put it into a tub, let it stand till it is almost cold, and then put a piece of toasted bread covered with yeast to set it a working. It must stand for five or six days, and be often stirred. Afterwards take a calk that will just hold the liquor, and throw in a match dipt in brimstone and lighted, through the bung-hole; flop it up close till the fumes are allayed, and then put in the liquor, laying the bung light on till you find the working is over. After which flop it close, and let it stand three months before you bottle it off.

How To Make Ginger-Wine

Take three gallons of water, three pounds of sugar, and nine ounces of ginger cut into slices; boil them together for an hour, and take off the scum as it rises. Let the liquor stand till it is lukewarm, and then put in two spoonfuls of yeast to set it a-working. When it is over, put it in a calk; and it may be bottled off in a fortnight's time.