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roots, efpecially in the fpring of the year, free from fuck- 

 ers and grafs. 



This treatment is the more neceflary, in that the good- 

 nefs of the wine in a great degree depends on their havin 

 the full benefit of the fun and air, to maturate and give the 

 berries a proper balfamic quality, by exhaling a due pro- 

 portion of their acid watry particles* 



The Receij^t for makhig CURRANT WINE. 



GATHER your currants when full ripe, which will 

 commonly be about the middle of July; break them well 

 in a tub or vat (we have a mill conflrufted for the purpofe, 

 confifting of a hopper, fixed upon two lignum vita^ rol- 

 lers), prefs and meafure your juice, add two thirds water, 

 and to each gallon of that mixture (/. e, juice and w^atcr) 

 put 31b. of Mufcovado fugar, (the cleaner and drier the 

 better, very coarfe fugar, firft clarified will do equally well) 

 ftir it well 'till the fugar is quite diflblved, and then tun 

 it up. It you can poffibly prevent it, let not your juice 

 fland over night, as it fhould not ferment before mixture. 



Obfcrve, that your calks be fweet and clean, and fuch 

 that never have had either beer or cyder in them, and if 

 new, let them be firft w^cU feafoncd. 



Do not fill your calks too full, othcrwife they v^ill work 

 out at the bung, which is by no means good for the wine; 



make a proportionable quantity over and above, 

 that after drawing ofl' the wine, you may have a fuih- 



ciency to fill up the caflvs. 



Lay the bung lightly OiJ tlie hole, to prevent the flies, 



&c, from creeping in. In three weeks or a month after 

 makiap', the bung hole may be flopped up, leaving only 



rather 



the vent hole open 'till it has fully done working, which 

 generally is about the latter end of Odober. It may then 

 be racked off into other clean caflcs, if you pleafe, but ex- 

 perience feems to favour the letting the wine fiand on 

 the lees 'till fpring, as it thereby attains a flronger body. 





and is by that means in great meafiare diveflcd of that fwce 



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