The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of ... recipts ... in cookery [etc.] ... to which is added a collection ... of receipts of medicines ... / by E--- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith].

  • Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.
Date:
1739
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of ... recipts ... in cookery [etc.] ... to which is added a collection ... of receipts of medicines ... / by E--- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    every three pints of liquor put a pound of double refin’d fugar ; break yourfugar in fmall lumps, and put it in the vefifel, with a bit of ifinglafs, and flop it up, and at three months end bottle it out, putting into every bottle a lump of double-refin’d fugar. This is the fine goofeberry-wine. To make Cherry-Brandy. 'T'AKE fix dozen pounds of cherries, half red and half black, and mafh or fqueeze them with your hands to pieces, and put to them three gallons of brandy, and let them ftand fteeping 24 hours *, then put the maflrd cherries, and liquor., a little at a time, into a canvas bag, and prels it as long as any juice will run ; fweeten it to your talte, and put it into a vefiel fit for it, and let it ftand a month, and bottle it out i put a lump ofloaf-fugar into every bottle. T) make Cherry-Wine. T>ULL the (talks off* the cherries, and math them without breaking the (tones *, then prefs them hard thro* a hair bag, and to every gallon of liquor put a pound and half of fix-penny-fugar; the vefiel mult be full, and let it work as long as it makes a noife in the vefiel; then (top it up clofe for a month or fix weeks; when it is fine, draw it into bottles, put a lump of loaf-fugar into every bottle, and if any of them fly, open them all for a moment, and cork them well again ; it will not be fit to drink in a quarter of an year. To make Currant-Wine. 'T'AKE four gallons of currants, not too ripe, and ftrip them into an earthen ftein that has a cover to it; then take two gallons and a half of water, and five pounds and a half of double-refin’d fugar ; boil the fugar and water together, and feum it, and pour it boiling hot on the currants, and let ic ftand 48 hours s then drain it thro* a flannel bag