The frugal housewife; or, experienced cook : wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands with cleanliness, decency, and elegance is explained in five hundred approved receipts ... / originally written by Susanna Carter, but now improved by an experienced cook in one of the principal taverns in the city of London.

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Barley, Plum, Palermo, and Clury Wine. as much sugar as will sweeten the whole ; boil the wa- ter, lemons, and sugar together, letting it stand till it is cool; then add a quart of white wine, and the other lemon and brandy ; mix them together and run it through a flannel bag into some vessel; let it stand three months, and bottle it off; cork your bottles very well, and keep it cool; it will be fit to drink in a month or six weeks. Barley Wine. Take half a pound of French barley and boil it in three waters, and save three pints of the last water, and mix it with a quart of white wine, half a pint of borage water, as much clary water, a little red rose water, the juice of five or six lemons, three quar- ters of a pound of fine sugar, and the thin yellow rind of a lemon ; brew all these quick together, run the li- quor through a strainer, and bottle it up ; it is pleasant in hot weather, and very good in fevers. Plum H'ine. Take twenty pounds of Malaga raisins, pick, rub, and shred them, and put them into a tub ; then take four gallons of fair water, boil it an hour, and let it stand till it is blood warm; then put it to your raisins ; let it stand nine or ten days, stirring it once or twice a day ; strain out your liquor, and mix it with two quarts of damson juice, put it in a vessel, and, when it lias done working, stop it close; at the end of four or five months bottle it. Palermo Wine. Take to every quart of water a pound of Malaga raisins, rub and cut the raisins small, and put them to the water, and let them stand ten days, stirring once or twice a day; you may boil the water an hour before yon put it to the raisins, and let it stand to cool: at ten days’ end strain your liquor, and put a little yeast to it : and at the days’ end put it in the vessel, with one sprig of dried wormwood ; let it be close stopped, and at three months’ end bottle it off. Clary Wine. Take twenty-four pounds of Malaga rai- sins, pick them and chop them very small, put them into a tub, and to each pound a quart of water ; let them