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

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every bottle put a very small lump of double refined sugar. This is excellent wine, and has a beautiful color. SHAM CHAMPAGNE One lemon sliced, one tablespoon tartaric acid, one ounce of race-gin c;cr, one and one- half pounds sugar, two and one-half gallons of boiling water poured on the above. When blood warm, add one gill of distillery yeast, or two gills of home-brewed. Let it stand in the sun through the day. When cold, in the evening, bottle, cork, and wire it. In two days it is ready for use. CHEAP AND AGREEABLE TABLE BEER Take four and one-half gallons of water and boil one half, putting the other into a barrel; add the boiling water to the cold with one quart of molasses and a little yeast. Keep the bung-hole open until fermentation ceases. CHERRY BOUNCE Four quarts of wild cherries stemmed and well washed, four quarts of water. (I put mine in a big yellow bowl, and cover with double cheese-cloth, and set behind the kitchen stove for two weeks.) Skim every 28