94 September 1748. 



concluded in future times Philadelphia will 

 be obliged to pay a great price for wood. 



The wine of blackberries, which has a 

 very fine tafte, is made in the following 

 manner. The juice of the blackberries is 

 prefled out, and put into a veflel; with half 

 a gallon of this juice, an equal quantity of 

 water is well mixed. Three pounds of 

 brown fugar are added to this mixture, 

 which muft then ftand for a while, and 

 after that, it is fit for ufe. Cherry wine is 

 made in the fame manner, but care muft 

 be taken that when the juice is prefTed 

 out, the (tones be not crufhed, for they 

 give the wine a bad tafte. 



They make brandy from peaches here, 

 after the following method. The fruit is 

 cut afunder, and the ftones are taken out. 

 The pieces of fruit are then put into a 

 veflel, where they are left for three weeks 

 or a month, till they are quite putrid. 

 They are then put into the diftilling veflel, 

 and the brandy is made and afterwards dif- 

 tilled over again. This brandy is not good 

 for people who have a more refined tafte, 

 but it is only for the common kind of 

 people, fuch as workmen and the like. 



Apples yield a brandy, when prepared 

 in the fame manner as the peaches. But 

 for this purpofe thofe apples are chiefly 



taken 



