106 Bush-Fruits 



geons to be the only sure and sovereign remedy against 

 chronic diarrhoea, proving effectual whenever taken in 

 time, even after all other medicines had failed. If the 

 previously prepared wine or brandy is not available, the 

 water from blackberry roots freshly dug and steeped, will 

 usually serve the purpose equally well. This, though an 

 old-time household remedy, has lost none of its effective- 

 ness with the passage of time. 



Various recipes are given for the manufacture of wine, 

 one of which is quoted from an early edition of "The 

 Gardener's Monthly." "Express the juice through a 

 thick cloth, to prevent any pulp mixing with it. To one 

 quart of juice add two quarts of soft water (cold) and three 

 pounds of sugar. Let it then stand in a wide-mouthed 

 vessel, until fermentation ceases, which will be sometimes 

 after two months. Be careful while fermentation is going 

 on to keep the film skimmed clear from the top of the 

 liquid daily, and to keep the vessel full to the top. A small 

 vessel of the liquid should be kept for filling up the large 

 vessels as the skimmings are removed. When fermenta- 

 tion ceases, strain the wine into bottles. The wine keeps 

 better in large quantities, and to that end put it into large 

 stone jugs, corking and sealing them." 



Another recipe adds a quart of boiling water to every 

 gallon of the crushed fruit, before expressing the juice, 

 instead of adding cold water afterwards. It also adds the 

 white of eggs beaten to a froth and stirred into the juice; 

 spices are also enclosed in a cloth bag, and dropped into it. 



Formerly there was a market for good blackberry wine 

 for medicinal uses, at $2 to S3 a gallon, and if a glut of 

 fresh fruit occurred, it could be turned into wine to good 



