4o A^horifms concerning Cider. 



tain a confiderable part of fweetnefs more then it can do after the 

 Method uCed hitherto in Herefordfhire. Nor do I doubt but my 

 Method will in a degree have the fame efFedt in Terry^ and the 

 drink (as yet without a name that I do know of) which is made 

 ofthe juice of fVardens, Pears and Jpples^ by feveral perfons, in 

 feveral proportions ^ for the Reafon being the fame, I have no 

 caufetodoubtj but the e^e^ will follow, as well in thole Dnwi^x, 

 as in Cider and Wines: 



I am now come to my lafl: Ajfertion ; that Cider thus ufed can- 

 not be HMn>holfome, but may be done to what degree any mans 

 ralate defires. 



t'irji, it cannot be unwholfome^ upon the fame meafiire that 

 Jiummed Wine is fo ^ for that unwholfomenefs is by leaving the 

 caufe of fermentation in the Wine^ and not fufFering it to produce 

 its effe^ before the Wine be drank, and h ferments in mans body : 

 and not only fo, but fets other A««/<?«r/ in the body mto fermenta- 

 tion ^ and this pre)udiccth their health that drink fuch Wines. 



Now though Cider ufed in my method fhould not ferment at all, 

 till it come into the hottle , and then but a little 5 yet the caufe of 

 fermentation being in a great degree taken away, the reft can do 

 no confiderable harm to thofe which drink it, being in it felf but 

 little, and having wrought in the bottle before men drink it ; nor 

 indeed do I think, nor ever find, that it did any inconvenience to 

 my felf, or any perfon that drank it when it was thus ufed. 



Secondly y becaufe the difference of mens palate sand conjiituti- 

 ons is very great 5 and that accordingly men like or diflike drink 

 that hath more or lefs of the^e* in it 5 and that the confequences 

 in point of health are very different, in the method by me former- 

 ly prefcribed : it is in your power to give the Cider juft as much 

 ftet as you pleafe, and no more j and that by feverall ways : for 

 cither you may bottle it fboner or later, as you pleafe ; or you 

 may bottle it from two taps in your Veffel^ and that from the high- 

 er Tap will have lefs^e^, and the lower inore : or you may bottle 

 your Cider all from one Tap^ and open ft)me of the bottles about a 

 week after for a few minutes^ and then ftop them up again 5 and 

 that which was thus ftop'd will have the \eCsfiet : or, if your Ci- 

 der be bottled all from one Tap^ if you will (even without opening 

 the bottles) you may make fome difference, though not fb confi- 

 derable as either of the former ways, by keeping part of the /"Of- 

 tles warmer, for the firft two moneths, then the reft 5 for that - 

 which is kept warmeft will have the moft fiet. 



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