Aphorifnis concerning Cider. 43 



as wc vulgarly call them bitter'' feak^ of which for the firft years 

 Cider A'ery good is made unboyld, for two years keeping 5 being 

 boy led about an Hogfiead to half, it's exceedingly ftrong, but not 

 fo pleafant. 



Eighthly, We have few Apples, befides this, that yield good Ci- 

 <5^er alone; the next to it is ^ Deans Jppkj and the Tleafantinel 

 think may be mentioned in the third place 5 neither of which need 

 the addition of other ^pp/cxto fet offtherellifh, as do the reft of 

 our choiceft fruits 5 Pepins, Pear mains and Gilly-jiovpers commixt 

 arc faid to make the beft Cider in the world. In Jerfey 'tis a gene- 

 ral obfer vat ion, that the more of re^ any Apple hath in his r/W, 

 the more appropriate to this ufe ; pale-fac'd Apples they exclude 

 as much may be from their Cider Vat. With us 'tis an obfervati- 

 on, that no {wcet Apple that hatha tough rindh bad for Ciders. 



Mujtard made Wnh fack^ preferves boiled Cider, and fpiritsit 

 epregioufly : If you boil Cider efpecial care muft be had to put 

 it into the furnace immediately from the wring ; otherwife, if it 

 be let ftand in Vats, or veflels, two or three days after the pref- 

 fure, the beft and mod jpirituous part will afcend and fly away 

 in the vapours when fire is put under it 5 and the loQger your boi- 

 ling continues, the lefs of goodncfs, or vertue, will be left remain- 

 ing in the Cider. 



1. One oi^ mine Acquaintance, when z child, hoarding ^/'/»/ej- in 

 a box where Roje-cakes, and other fweet wares were, their Com- 

 panions found them of fo un(avory tafte, and of fo rank a rellifti 

 derived from that perfumed gear which laytooneer, that even a 

 childifti /»4iWe(that feldom didikes any thing that looks like an 

 Apple) could uQt difpenfe with it. 



2. A Friend of mine having made provifion [of y^/ip/ie/ for Ci- 

 der, whereof fo great a part of them were found rotten when the 

 time of grinding them came, that they did as 'twere wafti the 

 room with their juice, through which they were carried to the 

 wring , had Cider fi:om them not only paflable, but exceeding 

 good j but not without previous ufe of the prementioned cauti- 

 on i I am alfo affured by a Neighbour of mine, that a Brother of his, 

 who is a great Cider Merchant in Devonjhire, is by frequent experi- 

 ence fo well fatisficd with the harmlefsnefs of rotten Apples, that 

 he makes no fcruple of exchanging with any one that comes to his 

 Cider-pref, a Bulliel o( found-apples for the fame meafure of the 

 other. Herein 1 fuppofe (if in other refpefts they are not preju- 

 dicial) he m.ay be a gainer by the neer comprejjion of the tainted 

 Fruit -^ which, as we (peak in our Country Phrafe, willgoneerer 

 together then the other: His advantage may be the greater, if 

 the conceit which goes currant with them, be not a bottomlefs fan- 

 cy i that a convenient quantity of rotten Apples mixt with the 

 found is gre.ulyaffiftant to the work of /erAwe»^<<^zo», andnota* 

 bly helps to clarifie the Cider. 



^. A Ne;^/j^(?«r told me, that making a quantity of C/V/erwith 

 wind-falls, which he let ripen in the /(tfar*^, neer a moneth inter- 

 ceding; the time of their decuflion, and that which nature inten- 

 ^ ded 



