1928 Giggle Water by Charles S Warnock

ii8 GIGGLE WATER Pour this quickly into the filter, and, 5 minutes after the water has drained through, fill up with the wine to be filtered, taking care to keep the filter always full.

249. TO MAKE SYRUP FOR CHAMPAGNE WINE To 25 pounds white sugar, add 2 gallons water and the whites of 4 eggs; stir until the sugar is dissolved. Let the whole simmer to the candy degree; then strain it through a bag made of fine flannel.

250. TO PREPARE ISINGLASS FOR FINING WINES Cut up some isinglass (it must be of the very best qual ity), and put it in a jar, -with just enough wine or water to cover it; add daily as much of the wine or water as has been absorbed by the isinglass. In 6 or 8 days it should be completely dissolved, forming a thick fluid mass. Squeeze it through a linen cloth and put it into a bottle, adding 4 or 5 per cent of 95 per cent alcohol to make it keep. For 40 gallons wine to be fined, take i wine-glassful of dissolved isinglass, add a little wine and a pinch of salt, and beat to a froth with a whisk, adding by degrees sufficient wine to make the mixture up to Y2 gallon. When foaming, pour it slowly into the wine, stirring till all the fining is incorporated with the wine. Isinglass thus pre-