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Wine and wine making - Early works to 1800
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The english pocket gardener: or, Country Gentleman's Vade Mecum. Wherein The Practice of the Pleasure and Kitchen Garden is made easy to all who study Gardening either for Profit or Amusement. To which is added, the art of preserving fruits, and directions for making English Wines, &c.
Date: [1794]- Books
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The country brewer's assistant, and English Vintner's Instructor, in two parts. Part the first treating 1. The choice of Water, 2. Grinding the Malt, 3. Use and Nature of the Hops, 4. Instructions for private Families, 5. Brewling good Small-Beer. 6. General Instructions for brewing, 7. Mashing. 8. Cooling and Working, 9. Casking the Drink. Part the second Containing general Instructions for making English Wines, exemplified in a select Number of original choice Receipts for producing excellent Wines from the following British Fruits, Herbs, and Flowers: Grapes, Raspberries, Mulberries, Currants, Cherries, Gooseberries, Quinces, Damsins, Apricots, Elder Berries, Birch, Sage, Cowslips, Gilliflowers, Strawberries, Blackberries. To which are added, Two excellent Receipts for making Orange and Palermo Wines, With Instructions for making (after the most improved Method) Mead, Cyder, and Metheglin, The celebrated Irish and Green Usquebaughs, The admired Brunswick Mum (taken from the Record in the Town-House at Brunswick,) And the genuine Receipt for making Dr. Stevens's justly-famous Cordial Water. With an appendix, containing the Distiller's Assistant. By George Edmonds.
Edmonds, George, active 1769.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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The new art of cookery, according to the present practice; being a complete guide to all housekeepers, on a plan entirely new; consisting of thirty-eight chapters. ... By Richard Briggs, many years cook at the Globe Tavern Fleet-Street, the White Hart Tavern, Holborn, an now at the Temple Coffee-House, London.
Briggs, Richard.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- Books
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The art of planting and cultivating the vine; as also, of making, fining, and preserving wines, &c. According To The Most Approved Methods In The Most celebrated Wine-Countries in France. Compiled for the use of such as intend to prosecute that beneficial and national branch of commerce and agriculture in America, and particularly for that of the Colony at New Bourdeaux; by Louis de Saint Pierre, Esq; One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for Granville County, and Captain of the Company of Militia, consisting of the French Vine-Dressers, established at New Bourdeaux, in South Garolina.
Saint Pierre, Louis de, active 1772.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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The art and mystery of vintners and wine-coopers: or, a brief discourse concerning the various sicknesses and corruptions of wines, and their respective remedies; also approved directions for the conserving and curing all sorts of wines; whether Spanish, Greek, Italian, Portugal or French, very necessary for all people. Delivered to the Royal Society, by one that served two apprenticeships to a vintner, in the City of London.
Charleton, Walter, 1620-1707.Date: 1735