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To Make Balm Wine - Take a 16 Quart Peck of Balm well pick'd pour upon it 16 Quarts of boiling Water, let it stand 24 hours, then clear it off from the Leaves and squeeze them, put to your Liquor 7 pound of Sugar, beat the whites of 3 Eggs, and put in when you set it on the fire, as soon as it begins to boil scum it very well, let it boil an hour, then add the peels of 3 Lemons, and when it is no warmer than new Wort put the juice of 2 or 3 Lemons, and a gill of yeast, put it in a small vessel or Spiggot pot, beat it in twice a day, as long as it work, stop it close and bottle it at the fort nights end, if it be a fine clear day. To Make Elder Flower Wine - Take six Gallons of Water, 12 pounds of Sugar 26 pound of Raisins stoned and cut boil them one hour take half a peck of Flowers, or 8 quarts, shak'd from the stalks, when your Liquor is almost Cold pour it upon your flowers, let it stand all night then add 6 spoon fulls of yeast, 6 spoon fulls of juice of Lemons, two days after put it into a Barrel, and at 3 Months end Bottle, you must strain it from the flowers, and Raisins before you put it up -
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To Make Balm Wine - Take a 16 Quart Peck of Balm well pick'd pour upon it 16 Quarts of boiling Water, let it stand 24 hours, then clear it off from the Leaves and squeeze them, put to your Liquor 7 pound of Sugar, beat the whites of 3 Eggs, and put in when you set it on the fire, as soon as it begins to boil scum it very well, let it boil an hour, then add the peels of 3 Lemons, and when it is no warmer than new Wort put the juice of 2 or 3 Lemons, and a gill of yeast, put it in a small vessel or Spiggot pot, beat it in twice a day, as long as it work, stop it close and bottle it at the fort nights end, if it be a fine clear day. To Make Elder Flower Wine - Take six Gallons of Water, 12 pounds of Sugar 26 pound of Raisins stoned and cut boil them one hour take half a peck of Flowers, or 8 quarts, shak'd from the stalks, when your Liquor is almost Cold pour it upon your flowers, let it stand all night then add 6 spoon fulls of yeast, 6 spoon fulls of juice of Lemons, two days after put it into a Barrel, and at 3 Months end Bottle, you must strain it from the flowers, and Raisins before you put it up -
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