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Sur.igosa and Mountain Wine, Cherry Brandy and Shrub.
cruised ; pour the liquor boiling hot over them, and
when cold, work it with half a pint of yeast two days :
pour it through a flannel or sieve, then put it into a
barrel fit for it, with half an ounce of isinglass well
bruised, when it has done working, stop it close for a
month, then bottle it, and in every bottle put a very small
lump of double-refined sugar : this is excellent wine, and
has a beautiful colour.
To make Saragosa Wine, or English Sack. To every
quart of water put a sprig of rue, and to every gallon a
handful of fennel-roots: boil these half an hour, then
strain it ofif, and to every gallon of this liquor put three
pounds of honey ; boil it two hours, and skim it well;
when it is cold pour it ofif, and turn it into the vessel, or
such cask as is fit for it; keep it a year in the vessel, and
then bottle it. It is a very good sack.
DIountain Wine. Pick out the stalks of your Malaga
raisins, chop them small, and add five pounds to every
gallon of cold spring water ; let them steep a fortnight
or more, squeeze out the liquor, and barrel it in a vessel
fit for it; first fume the vessel with brimstone. Don’t
stop it close till the hissing is over.
To make Cherry Brandy Take six dozen pounds of cher-
ries, half red and half black, mash or squeese them to pieces
with your hands, and put to them three gallons of bran-
dy, letting them stand steeping twenty-four hours ; then
put the mashed cherries and liquor, a little at a time, in-
to a canvas bag, and press it as long as any juice will
run ; sweeten it to your taste ; put it into a vessel fit for
it ; let it stand a month, and bottle it out. Put a lump
of loaf sugar into every bottle.
To make Shrub. Take two quarts of brandy, and put
it into a large bottle, adding to it the juice of five lemons,
the peels of two, and halt a nutmeg : stop it up, let it
stand three days, and add to it three pints of white wine,
and a pound and a half of sugar : mix it, strain it twice
through a flannel, and bottle it up. It is a pretty wine
and cordial.
