1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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then mix with it J

a pint or more of the wine ;

ounce chalk in powder. "When the two are well incorporated, pour it into the cask, and stir the wine, so as not to disturb the sediment or lees. As soon as the wines are clear and bright, after being fined down, they ought to be racked into a sweet and clean cask, — the cask to be filled up and bunged tight. No. 338. Hoio the Bottling of Wine is performed. Fine clear weather is best for bottling all sorts of wines ; and much cleanliness is required. The first consideration in bottling wines is to examine and see if the wines are in a proper state. The wines should be fine and brilliant, or they will never brighten after. White wines, before being bottled, must go through the process of fining. For 1 hogs- head, (or any quantity in proportion, more or less,) take 2 ounces isinglass, and dissolve it in 1 quart water, and mix with 2 quarts of the wine. Red wines are fined by beating to a froth the white of 7 eggs, and mixing them with 3 times the bulk of water ; then, adding 2 quarts of the wine, mix well, and pour it into 1 barrel of your wine. The bottles must be all sound, clean, and dr;y, with plenty of good, sound corks. The cork is to be put in with the hand, and driven well in with a flat wooden mallet, the weight of which ought to be li pounds, but, however, not to exceed li pounds ; for, if the mallet be too light or too heavy, it will not drive the cork in properly, and may break the bottle. The corks must so com-