mp sugar may be put into each bottle before
corking it. When intended for keeping, it should be stored in a cool
cellar, when the quality will be greatly improved by age.

2199. Cider Champagne.

Cider, eighteen gallons; spirit, three pints; sugar, five pounds. Mix
and let them rest for a fortnight, then fine with one pint of skimmed
milk. Bottle in champagne bottles: when opened, it will be found to
approach very nearly to genuine champagne.

2200. Properties of Cider.

Cider is a pleasant and refreshing beverage, and with persons in good
health is not unwholesome when drunk in moderation. By persons
suffering from indigestion, however, it should be carefully avoided;
nor should it be drunk by persons when they are overheated, as it is
apt to cause colic and other disagreeable symptoms. Persons who suffer
from rheumatism, or have a tendency to it should not drink cider.

[KNOWLEDGE IS THE WING WHEREBY WE FLY TO HEAVEN.]

2201. Perry.

A beverage made from pears. The fruit used for this purpose should
contain a large proportion of sugar, and be likewise astringent, or
the liquor from it will be acetous when it ceases to be saccharine. In
the making of perry, the pears are pressed and ground in precisely the
same manner as apples are in the making of cider. The method of
fermenting perry is nearly the same as that for cider; but the former
does not afford the same indications as the latter by which the proper
period of racking off may be known. The thick scum that collects on
the surface of cider rarely appears in the juice of the pear, and
during the time of the suspension of its fermentation, the excessive
brightness of the former liquor is seldom seen in the latter; but when
the fruit has been regularly ripe, its produce will generally become
moderately clear and quiet in a few days after it is made, and it
should then be drawn off from its grosser lees.

In the after management of perry the process is the same as that of
cider; but it does not so well bear situations where it is much
exposed to change of temperature. In bottle it almost always retains
its good qualities, and in that situation it is always advisable to
put it, if it remain sound and perfect at the conclusion of the first
succeeding summer.

2202. Servants.

There are frequent complaints in these days, that servants are bad,
and dependents