0* TAMILY WINT. MAKI.YG?. 35^ 



Vf. 



On Family Wine Making. By W. Matthews. E*q. *, 



To the Committee of Superintendance of the Bath and 

 Went of England Society* 



Gentlemen, 



AlAVING in the 10th volume of the Society's papers Hom« made 

 been indulged with the insertion of a few remarks on the ' 

 utility of making family wines from several of our garden 

 fruits ; I took the liberty of presenting, at a subsequent 

 General Meeting, for its examination, a sample of suck 

 "wine made under my own notice. It will be within the re- 

 collection of different gentlemen, who attended that meet- 

 ing, that the wine they tasted w^as deemed a very good, 

 pleasant-flavoured, and useful article. The price at which 

 it was made + was considered as small, when compared with ' 



the uses to which the wine may be applied, even in genteel for family use, 

 families, where economy is regarded. But the idea of 

 making such an article, in considerable quantities, (espe- 

 cially in abundant fruit years,) so as to have the power of 

 furnishing sick and sickly poor persons with such occa- and the sick 

 sional refreshment, could not pass unapproved. The oldest P oor - 

 w ine of this sort which 1 now have by me, is yet too young 

 to give proof of that excellence, which three or four years 

 more will give it; but it is now so rich and valuable, that 

 I can have no hesitation about publishing the recipe, by 

 which it is made, and encouraging any of our members fully 

 to rely upon it for success. The fruits used were of the 

 different sorts mentioned in the recipe, excepting goose- 

 berries, and I think nearly of equal quantities, taken out 

 of a private garden, where they would otherwise have 

 turned to very little account. My friends having fully Goodness, 

 convinced me, that if I gave them white wine equally good 



* Papers of the Bath and West of England Society, vol. XI, 

 p. 2?<2. 



f This will be from 2s. (3d. to 3s. per gallon, according to cir- 

 cumstances. 



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