1922 Home-Made Beverages and American Drinks by M E Steedman

10 Home-mad* Beverages. of white wine vinegar,coverthepan with a sheet of paperand leave for4days. Strain through a jelly bag, measure the liquid, allow 1 lb. of pure cane sugar to every pint, and boil together for 30 minutes, skimming carefully. When cool add half a pint of good brandy to every quart of liquid, and store in airtight bottles. Apricot Wine. Slice 241b.of ripesound apricots,and boilthem for half an hour with half the kernels,6 gallons of water and 2 lb. pure cane sugar. Pour into a large vessel and when lukewarm stir in two table-spoonfuls of yeast,cover over with a folded cloth or blanket, and leave undisturbed for 4 or 5 days, then strain into a clean dry cask, reserving about a gallon of the liquid. Bung the cask lightly, and fill up as the fermentation subsides, and when this hasended add a quart of white wine or good brandy and fasten the cask securely. Leave for 6 months, then bottle, and in a yearthe wine will be readyto use. Apricot Wine(No.2). Slice 18Ib.ofsound ripe apricots,and boilthem for an hour with 3 gallons of water, and about half the kernels bruised. Strain through a jelly bag, measure, and to every pint of liquid allow 3 oz. pure cane sugar. Bring to boiling point again, and simmer gently for ten minutes, skimming carefully, then pour into an earthen ware jar, cover over and leave until the next day. Pour the wine into dry bottles,put a lump of cane sugar into each,cork and seal the bottles securely, and stpre for six months. Aromatic Cordial. Infuse 1 oz. ground ginger, J or.cardamom seeds, J oz. each of thinly pared orange rind, mace'and bruised cinnamon, and 1 oz. crushed sugar candy in IJ pints of good whisky for a fortnight in a tightly corked bottle, then strain and re-bottle. Arrack Liqueur. Boil i lb. sugar candy, the thinly pared rind of half a lemon,and 1 pint of water together till rather thick, then strain, and when cold add a pint of arrack. Pour into small bottles, cork tightly and seal with bottling wax.