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Currant wine - a rich sort.
Fifty two quarts of red currants picked from the stalks, will make twelve quarts of juice, 150 weight of moist sugar for 44 gallons of wine. The currants when picked & measured put into a large tub with some water & bruised well with the hand, then strain them through a hair sieve squeezing them into another tub, & more water added to extract all the goodness from the currants, but do not put too much water, therefore keep an exact account 5 pints of water to one quart of juice, when all the liquor is made put in the sugar mixing it well, & put the whole into a cask, let it stand to work & when the fermentation is entirely over bung it close.
A cake. 3/4 lb Butter beat to a cream, 1 lb loaf sugar, 12 eggs leaving out four whites, 2 lb flour, a little nutmeg, half a glass of Brandy, & a few carraways, to be baked two hours. This quantity makes a large cake.
To make little cake.
Take a 1/4 of a pound of flour, a 1/4 pound of lump sugar sifted, 2 ounces of butter, two eggs, & a few caraways, roll it out thin, cut it out any shape you please & bake it on tins.

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Currant wine - a rich sort. Fifty two quarts of red currants picked from the stalks, will make twelve quarts of juice, 150 weight of moist sugar for 44 gallons of wine. The currants when picked & measured put into a large tub with some water & bruised well with the hand, then strain them through a hair sieve squeezing them into another tub, & more water added to extract all the goodness from the currants, but do not put too much water, therefore keep an exact account 5 pints of water to one quart of juice, when all the liquor is made put in the sugar mixing it well, & put the whole into a cask, let it stand to work & when the fermentation is entirely over bung it close. A cake. 3/4 lb Butter beat to a cream, 1 lb loaf sugar, 12 eggs leaving out four whites, 2 lb flour, a little nutmeg, half a glass of Brandy, & a few carraways, to be baked two hours. This quantity makes a large cake. To make little cake. Take a 1/4 of a pound of flour, a 1/4 pound of lump sugar sifted, 2 ounces of butter, two eggs, & a few caraways, roll it out thin, cut it out any shape you please & bake it on tins.