1919 Home made beverages

Wines and Wine Making

the water must not be very hot, as they are thus rendered troublesome to press. In the above manner are made beet-root wine, parsnip wine, turnip wine, etc. 6. — From flowers, spices, aromatics, etc. — These are prepared by infusing a sufficient quantity of the bruised ingredient for a few days in any simple wine (as that from sugar, honey, raisins, etc.), after the active fermentation is complete, or, at all events, a few weeks before racking them. In the above manner are made clary wine (muscatel) (from flowers, 1 qt. to the gallon); cowslip wine (from flowers, 2 qt. to the gallon); elder flower wine (flowers of white-berried elder, % pt.; and lemon juice, 3 fl.oz. to the gallon); ginger wine (1J^ oz. ginger to the gallon); orange wine (1 doz. sliced oranges per gallon); lemon wine (juice of 12 and rinds of 6 lemons to the gallon); spruce wine Q4, oz. of essence of spruce per gallon); juniper wine (berries, % pt. per gallon); peach wine (4 or 5 sliced and the stones broken, to the gallon); apricot wine (as peach wine, but with more fruit) ; quince wine (12 to the gallon) rose clove gillyflower, carnation, lavender, violet, prim- rose and other flower wines (distilled water from the flowers, 13^ pt., or flowers 1 pt. to the gallon); mixed fruit wine; pineapple wine; cider wine; elder wine; birch wine (from the sap, at the end of February or beginning of March) ; sycamore wine (from the sap) ; malt wine (from strong wort); and the wines of any of the saccharine juices of ripe fruit. 7. — From saccharine matter. — Take of sugar 3 to 4 lb.; cream of tartar, J^ oz.; water, 1 gal.; honey, 1 lb.; brandy, 2 to 4%. A handful of grape leaves or cutting, bruised, or 1 pt. of good malt wort or mild ale maybe substituted for the honey. Chiefly used as the basis for other wines, as it has little flavor of its own. In all the preceding formulae lump sugar is intended when the wines are required very pale, and good granu- lated sugar when this is not the case. Some of the pre- 11 159