1896 Fancy Drinks and Popular Beverages by the Only William

FRUIT WIN ES.

150

5 (l li. C§ingcr ill inc. Boil sixteen pounds of sugar and twelve ounces of well-pul– verized Jamaica ginger in twenty-four quarts of water half an hour; skim carefully, and let it stand till the following day. Cut seven pounds of raisins in pieces, remove the seeds, put the raisins in a cask with four quarts of good brandy or arrack, and three or four lemons, sliced and without seeds: pour over it the fluid , which you decant carefully; bung the cask; clear the wine after a fortnight with one ounce of pale white glue, and bottle after another fortnight. 505.