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

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the wine, put a small lump of loaf sugar into every bottle.

DAMSON, OR BLACK CHERRY WINE Damson, or Black Cherry Wine may be made in the same manner, excepting the ad- dition of spice, and that the sugar should be finer. If kept in an open vessel four days, these wines will ferment of themselves ; but it is better to forward the process by the use of a little yeast, as in former recipes. They will be fit for use in about eight months. As there is a flatness belonging to both these wines if bottled, a teaspoonful of rice, a lump or two of sugar, or four or five raisins will tend to enliven it. EBULUM To one hogshead of strong ale take a heaped bushel of elderberries, and one-half pound of juniper-berries beaten. Put in pA] the berries when you put in the hops, anrl let them boil together till the berries break in pieces, then work it up as you do ale. When it has done working add to it one-half pound of ginger, one-half ounce of cloves, one-half ounce of mace, one ounce of nut- megs, one ounce of cinnamon, grossly beaten, one-half pound of citron, one-half 52