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Aphorifms concerni?tg Cider. 91 



The only thing I (hall endeavour, being to prefcribe away to 

 make a fort of cider pleafant and quick of tafte, and yet whole- 

 fomcto drjnk.^ fbmetimes, and in a moderate proportion : For, 

 if this bean Herefie^ I muft confefs my felf guilty j that I prefer 

 Canary-wine^ Verdea^ the pleafanteft Wines of Greece, and the High- 

 cguntry-reines before the harjh sherries, Vin de Hermitage , and 

 the Italian and Fertngal rough Wines , or the beft Graves-wines 5 

 not at all regarding that I am told, and do believe, that thefe har^j 

 Wines are more comfortable to theJiomack_, and a Surfeit of them 

 lefe noxious, when taken } nor to be taken but with drinking great- 

 er quantities then can with fafety be taken of thofe other pleafent 

 Wines : I fatisfying my felf with this, that I Yiktlhc pleafant Wines 

 beft 5 which yet are lb wholefome that a man may drink a mode- 

 rate quantity of them without prejudice. 



Nor (hall I at all concern my felf, whether this fort of Cider I 

 pretend to is fo vinous a liquor i and confequently will yield lb , 

 much ^irit upon Dijiil/ation, or fo foon make the Country-man 

 think himfelf a Lord, as the Hard-apple-cider will do : nor whe- 

 ther it will laji fo long ■-, for it is no part of my defign to pcrfwade 

 the World to lay by the making of Hard-apple-cider J but rather in 

 a degree to Ihew how to improve that in point of pleafantnels, 

 and that by the making and rightly ordering of Cider of the beft 

 Eating-apples 'j as Golden-pepins, Kentijh-pepins , Pear-mains, <^c. 

 there may be made a more plealant liquor for the time it 

 will laft, then can be produced from thofe Apples which I call 

 Hard-apples , that is to fay , Red-Jirakes , Gennet-moyles , the 

 Broomsbury-crab, &c. which are fo harfh that a Hog will hardly 

 eat them. 



Nor (hall I at all meddle with the making of Perry, or of any 

 mixed drink of the juyce of Apples and Pears ; though poffibly 

 what I (hall fay for Cider may be aptly applied to Perry alfo. 



For the frji particular, I ajjerted that the beft Apples would 

 make the plcalanteft, which in my fence is the beft Cider , (and I 

 account thofe the be(V Apples, whofe juyce is the pleafanteft at the 

 time when (irftprefled, before fermentation) I (hall need (be(ides 

 the experience of the laft ten years) only to fay, that it is an unde- 

 niable thing in all Wines, that the pleafanteft Grapes make the 

 richeft and pleafanteft Wines 5 and that Cider is really but the 

 Wine of Apples, and not only made by the lame way of Comprejfi-^ 

 on -^ but left to it felf hath the fame way of Fermentation 5 and 

 therefore muft be liable to the fame meafures in the choice of the 

 materials. 



To my fecond Affertion , that this truth was not formerly 

 owned by reafon that in Hereford/hire, and thofe Countries where 

 they abound both with Pepins and hard-apples of all forts, they 

 made Cider of both forts, and ufed them alike ; that is, that as 

 foon as they ground'und prejjed the Apples undjirained the Liquor, 

 they put it into their Vefjels and there let it lye till it had wrought, 

 and afterwards was fetled again and fined ; as not thinking it 

 wholefome to drink till it had thus £as they call it) purg'd it felf, 



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