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Heelis family cookbook, 1850s

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Ginger Wine To 5 gallons water add 24 lb sugar boil it as long as any scum will rise. have ready 1 lb of ginger bruised [?] and broken to pieces. put it into a muslin bag & lay it in the tub the liquor is to be put into with the rind of three lemons & three Seville oranges ; pour the liquor boiling into the tub when really cool add 2 tablespoons of yeast _______________________________________ with a pint of brandy & the juice of the lemons & grapes & the peel with the barrel & let the bag of grapes lay from the [?] hole by a thread, so as to be just cooled by the wind - let it stand six weeks then [?] it if it is too sweet let it stand longer.
 
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