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When you have squeezd it from the husks measure it again into your cask and to every gallon of pulp put two pounds of single loaf sugar & take care that yr vessel be full, you may either work it with or without yest both have been tryd & both was clear.  When all your sugar is in stir it well together & bring it close looking often at it the first week till it has done working & then clay it well up that no air can get to it & let yr cellar be cool.  At six weeks end peirce yr vessel near ye bottom & draw it off into a clean dry cask leaving the gross sediment and to every ten gallon of liquor put two pounds of sugar for it to fead upon fill yr vessel full & bring it close & let it stand a year before you bottle it.  The cooler yr cellar is the richer your wine will be.  Note the dreggs take up much of yr cask a thirty gallon vessel wilnot yeild above twenty gallons when rait off towards the latter end run it through a jelly bagg
Six pecks of fruit will make abt eleven gallons of pulp which will fill a thirteen gallon cask of wine measure.

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When you have squeezd it from the husks measure it again into your cask and to every gallon of pulp put two pounds of single loaf sugar & take care that yr vessel be full, you may either work it with or without yest both have been tryd & both was clear. When all your sugar is in stir it well together & bring it close looking often at it the first week till it has done working & then clay it well up that no air can get to it & let yr cellar be cool. At six weeks end peirce yr vessel near ye bottom & draw it off into a clean dry cask leaving the gross sediment and to every ten gallon of liquor put two pounds of sugar for it to fead upon fill yr vessel full & bring it close & let it stand a year before you bottle it. The cooler yr cellar is the richer your wine will be. Note the dreggs take up much of yr cask a thirty gallon vessel wilnot yeild above twenty gallons when rait off towards the latter end run it through a jelly bagg Six pecks of fruit will make abt eleven gallons of pulp which will fill a thirteen gallon cask of wine measure.