The Complete Confectioner, Or, Housekeeper's Guide: To a Simple and Speedy Method of Understanding the Whole Art of Confectionary; The Various Ways of Preserving and Candying, Dry and Liquid, All Kinds of Fruit, Nuts, Flowers, Herbs, &C. ... the Different
The Complete Confectioner, Or, Housekeeper's Guide: To a Simple and Speedy Method of Understanding the Whole Art of Confectionary; The Various Ways of Preserving and Candying, Dry and Liquid, All Kinds of Fruit, Nuts, Flowers, Herbs, &C. ... the Different
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800 edition. Excerpt: ... and gently press it by degrees in a cyder-press, till the liquor is sufficiently drained put; provide a new cask, well seasoned, and aired with a lighted rag dipped in brimstone, till it becomes dry, pour the liquor in through a sieve funnel .to stop the dregs, and let it stand with only a pebble ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800 edition. Excerpt: ... and gently press it by degrees in a cyder-press, till the liquor is sufficiently drained put; provide a new cask, well seasoned, and aired with a lighted rag dipped in brimstone, till it becomes dry, pour the liquor in through a sieve funnel .to stop the dregs, and let it stand with only a pebble stone lightly laid, on the bung-hole to &r-. ment, and refine itself, ten or twelve days; then, draw it gently off into another cask, well sea-* sbned, that the lees or dregs may remain in the first cask, and stop it no other way than before* till it has quite passed over its ferment, which you may know by its coolness and pleasant taste: . and tftus of ordinary white grapes you may make a good sort of white wine; of the red grapes, claret; and if it should want colpur, heighten it with a little brazil, hoiled in about a quart of it* and strained very clear. The white grapes, not too ripe, give a good rhenish taste, and are won* derfully cooling. There is a sort of muscadel grapes, growing in many parts of England, which may be brought, by the help of a little loaf sugar to feed on, to produce a curious sweet wine, little differing from Canary, and' altogether as wholesome and pleasant . If the wine requires racking; the best tjme to do it is when the wind is in the north, and the weather temperate and clear; in the increase of the moon, and; when she is underneath the earth, and not in her full height., . If the wine ropes, take a coarse linen cloth, and when you have set the cask a-broach, set it before the bore, then nut in the linen, and rack rack it in a dry cask; put in five or six ounces of alum in powder, and shake them so that they may mix well.' On settling, it 'will be. fined down, and become very clear and pleasant wine. - To...
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