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Frances Collins cookbook, 1825-1846

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Fruit the better for Vinegar and the water should be put on Boiling hot. The Casks must be Iron hooped and all the Corks put in tight and melted Rosin over them. Measure the water after it is boil'd and is quite Cold. You need not put the Hops upon the Fruit as it may give the wine a taste if they are very bitter - For the small wine you may put one third the quantity of water you used for the best upon the same fruit and let it stand 3 or 4 Days or a week. Mrs. Jones Builth To make cowslip wine. To five gallons of water put fifteen pounds of moist sugar let it boil an hour; skimming it all the while, when as cool as new milk pour it on six gallons of Cowslip pips, take three Lemons and three Seville oranges, peel
 
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