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let it stand in an earthern Vessel for three Days close stopped, 

 then squeeze another dozen of Lemons, and add a gallon of 

 Spring water to them, and as much sugar as will sweeten the 

 whole to your palate. Boil the Water, the Lemons and the 

 Sugar together, and let it stand till it is cool ; then add to it 

 a quart of White Wine, and the other Lemon and Brandy, 

 and having mixed them together, run it through a Flannel 

 Bag into the Vessel you would keep it in, in which let it 

 stand three months and bottle it off for use. Let the Bottles 

 be well cork'd and kept cool, and it will be fit to drink in a 

 month or six weeks. From The Receipt Book of Charles 

 Carter, Cook to the Duke of Argyll, 1732. 



DOCTOR HARVEY'S PLEASANT WATER-CIDER, whereof he 

 used to drink much, making it his ordinary drink. Take 

 one Bushel of Pippins, cut them into slices with the Parings 

 and Cores; boil them in twelve gallons of water, till the 

 goodness of them be in the water ; and that consumed about 

 three gallons, then put it into an Hypo eras-bag, made of 

 cotton ; and when it is clear run out and almost cold, sweeten 

 it with five pounds of Brown Sugar, and put a pint of Ale- 

 yest to it, and set it a working two nights and days. Then 

 skim off the yest clean, and put it into bottles, and let it 

 stand two or three days, till the yest fall dead at the top ; 

 then take it off clean with a knife, and fill it up a little within 

 the neck (that is to say that a little about a finger's breadth 

 of the neck be empty, between the superficies of the Liquor, 

 and the bottom of the stopple), and then stop them up and 

 tye them, or else it will drive out the corks. Within a 

 fortnight you may drink of it. It will keep five or six weeks. 

 The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Opened, 1699. 



To MAKE RASPBERRY WINE. Take a gallon of good 

 Rhenish Wine, put into it as much Rasberries very ripe as 

 will make it strong, put it in an earthen pot, and let it stand 

 two days; then pour your Wine from the Rasberries, and 

 put into every bottle two ounces of sugar. Stop it up and 

 keep it by you. The Queen's Closet Opened, by W. M., Cook 

 to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1655. 



