a week after it is bottled.
58. COWSLIP WINE _another Way_.
To five gallons of water, put two pecks of cowslip peeps, and thirteen
pounds of loaf sugar; boil the sugar and water with the rinds of two
lemons, half an hour, and fine it with the whites of two eggs; when it
is near cold put in the cowslips, and set on six spoonfuls of new
yeast, work it two days, stirring it twice a day; when you squeeze out
the peeps to tun it, put in the juice of six lemons, and when it has
done working in the vessel, put in the quarter of an ounce of
isinglass, dissolv'd in the little of the wine till it is a jelly; add
a pint of brandy, bung it close up two months, then bottle it. This is
right good.
59. STRONG MEAD _another Way_.
To thirty quarts of water, put ten quarts of honey, let the water be
pretty warm, then break in the honey, stirring it till it be all
dissolv'd, boil it a full half hour, when clean scum'd that no more
will rise, put in half an ounce of hops, pick'd clean from the stalks;
a quarter of an ounce of ginger sliced (only put in half the ginger)
and boil it a quarter of an hour longer; then lade it out into the
stand thro' a hair-tems, and put the remainder of the ginger in, when
it is cold tun it into the vessel, which must be full; but not clay'd
up till near a month: make it the latter end of _September_, and keep
it a year in the vessel after it is clay'd up.
60. FRENCH BREAD.
To half a peck of flour, put a full jill of new yeast, and a little
salt, make it with new milk (warmer than from the cow) first put the
flour and barm together, then pour in the milk, make it a little
stiffer than a seed-cake, dust it and your hands well with flour, pull
it in little pieces, and mould it with flour very quick; put it in the
dishes, and cover them with a warm cloth (if the weather requires it)
and let them rise till they are half up, then set them in the oven,
(not in the dishes, but turn them with tops down upon the peel;) when
baked rasp them.
61. _The fine_ RUSH CHEESE.
Take one quart of cream, and put to it a gallon of new milk, pretty
warm, adding a good spoonful of earning; stir in a little salt, and set
it before the fire till it be cum'd; then put it into a vat in a cloth;
after a day and night turn it out of the vat into a rush box nine
inches in length and five in breadth. The rushes must be wash'd every
time the cheese is turn'd.
FINIS.
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