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WHAT I have now faid of Racking, (which, properly {peaking, is 
drawing it from one c/ofé Cask to another) may perhaps be as qwell, if 
not better, practis'd (and I know it to be the Practice of many Gen- 
tlemen) by getting a very large open Vat or Kieve, which will contain 
a whole Pounding of Cyder, and the Punmice, as we call it, (that is, 
the grofér Parts of the Pulp of the Apples, which will, tho’ frain’d 
at the Pound thro’ a Range, mix with the Juice) you fhall find in lefs 
than a Day to rife at the Top, and in a Day or two more at moft, to 
grow very thick ; and as foon as little white Fermentations break thro’ it, 
(about the Largenefs of the Yop of your Finger) they prefently draw it 
off under at a Foflet-Hole ; if you fuffer it to continue longer, all the 
Head, which is then become a thick Cruft, will fink away at the Bottom, 
and this ferves inftead of the firft Racking : But by letting your Cyder 
continue longer or lefs Time on thefe Lyes in the clofé Casks, you may 
harden or foften it at your Pleafure, as you likewife may by frequent 
after Rackéngs ; but this is a Method which the weaker Cyders will not 
endure, (as is before faid) ome or tayo Rackings at moft is all they can 
‘bear, they have not Body and Spirit enough to undergo any more fuch 
Expences as that Operation doth unavoidably creare. 
THERE is one Thing not yet taken Notice of in thefe Cydets, 
which concerns their Age, and the Time of their continuing good. The 
moft frequent Commendation you meet with of other Cyders, is, that 
they will keep three, four, or (rather than fail) feven Years ; but I muft 
own I never yet tafted any Cyder, but what was bef, and in the greatest 
Perfection, the firft Year : I have indeed heard of Cyder, (and ‘parti- 
cularly fome Crab-Cyder) which is not drinkable the jirft Year, but 
mellow -and groweth excellent the fécond or third ; but I never had the 
Pleafure of making the Experiment ; however, (unlefs there be fome 
fuch s/]-natur'd Cyders as are a Noli me tangere the firit Years) I will 
venture to fay the Royal Wilding and W. hitfour will keep good as long as 
any other ; tho I mutt repeat it, they are never as good in any of the 
following Years as they are the firft, | i 
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