1928 Giggle Water by Charles S Warnock

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GIGGLE WATER

d'orange, 3 ounces; lemon juice, pint. Rack it, bung close, and in 3 months fine it down with isinglass, ounce; in i month, if not sparkling, again fine it down, and in 2 weeks bottle it, observing to put a piece of double refined sugar, the size of a pea, into each bottle. The bottles should be wired, and the corks covered with tin foil. 262. TO MAKE BLACKBERRY WINE To make 10 gallons of this cheap and excellent wine, press the juice out of sufficient fresh ripe blackberries to make 4^ gallons; wash the pomace in gallons soft spring water, and thoroughly dissolve in it 6 pounds white sugar to each gallon of water (brown sugar will do for an inferior wine) ; strain the juice into this syrup, and mix them. Fill a cask with it perfectly full, and lay a cloth loosely over the bung-hole, placing the cask where it will be perfectly undisturbed. In 2 or 3 days fermenta tion will commence, and the impurities run over at the bung. Look at it every day, and if it does not run over, with some of the mixture which you have reserved in an other vessel fill it up to the bung. In about 3 weeks, fer mentation will have ceased, and the wine be still; fill it again, drive in the bung tight, nail a tin over it, and let it remain undisturbed until the following March. Then draw it off, without shaking the cask, put it into bottles, cork tightly and seal over. Some persons add spirit to the wine, but instead of doing good, it is only an injury. The more carefully the juice is strained, the better the quality