1922 Old Time Recipes Liquors Shrubs(4th edition) by Helen S Wright

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Then stop it close for three months, and draw it off into another vessel. When it is fine, bottle it. WALNUT MEAD WINE To every gallon of water put three and one-half pounds of honey, and boil them to- gether three-quarters of an hour. Then to every gallon of liquor put about two dozen of walnut leaves; pour boiling liquor upon them and let stand all night. Then take out the leaves and put in a spoonful of yeast, and let it stand for two or three days. Then make it up, and after it has stood for three months, bottle it. WHORTLEBERRY OR BILBERRY WINE Take one and one-half gallons of cold soft water, one and one-half gallons cider, two gallons berries. Ferment. Mix five pounds sugar, four-fifths ounce tartar in fine powder; add four-fifths ounce ginger in powder, one-half handful lavender and rose- mary leaves, one and two-thirds pints British spirits.

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