1903 The Flowing Bowl by Edward Spencer

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THE FLOWING BOWL

kingdome ; you shall know that your perry is made of peares onely, and your cider of apples j and for the manner of making thereof, it is done after one fashion, that is to say, after your Peares and Apples are well prickt from the stalkes, rottennesse, and all manner of other filthe, you shall put them in the presse mill which is made with a mil-stone running round in a circle, under which you shall crush your peares or apples, and then straining them through a bagge .of haire cloth, tunne up the same (after it hath bene a little setled) into hogs-heads, barrels, and other close vessels. " Now after you have prest all, you shall save that which is within the haire cloth bagge, and putting it into severall vessels, put a pretty quantity of water thereinto, and after it hath stood a day or two, and hath beene well stirred together, presse it over also againe, for this will make a small perry or cider, and must be spent first. Now of your best cider that which you make of your summer or sweete fruit you shall call summer or sweete cider or perry, and that you shall spend first also ; and that which you make of the winter and hard fruit, you shall call winter and sowre cider, or perry •, and that you may spend last, for it will indure the longest." We don't boil much cider nowadays, but this was a custom in considerable favour with the ancients. " In many places," says another writer, " they boyl their cider, adding thereto several spices, which makes it very pleasant, and abates the unsavoury smack it contracts by boyling, but