1896 Fancy Drinks and Poplular Beverages by the only William (paper cover)

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FRUIT WINES.

sugar is dissolved, fill the juice into a cask, so as not to fill it en– tirely; bung, and bore a small hole with a gimlet; let it sta nd four weeks in a place where the temperature never sinks below 68° F. After this period add three pounds of sugar dissolved in t110 quarts of warm water; shake the cask well, and bung ag ai: i. Six or eight weeks later, when no more noise of the ferme nt8.– tion can be heard going on, decant, add two quarts of bra ndy; Jet the wine stand._ two months in the cellar; then fill int o another, but not new cask, which must be entirely fill ed, ai: d bung. After three or four years, always in a temperature not be– low 68° F., bottle, and you obtain a delicious beverage, which much resembles good grape wine. 5.02:.