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Mary Carnegie and Susan Gillespie cookbook, 1804-1905

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Rosemount Recipe for raisin Wine
For half a Hogshead
Take one and a half Cwt of Malaga raisins and half a Cwt of Smyrna - pick the stalks from the Malaga and separate them from each other - Put the raisins into a Vat with 70 pints of cold Spring water. Then stir them well together with a [illegible] [Stick?] and cover the vat with a Blanket Stir every morning and Evening for the first 14 days (always covering well up as before After that Stir only every morning - In 3 weeks the raisins will begin to rise to the top. The stirring to be continued daily till the fermentation becomes very Strong and the liquor has acquired a [lime? fine?] taste and Smell; it is then fit to be put into the Cask which must be done in the following manner - 
Put a Sowens [Starch?] over a Tub. put the raisins into it and squeeze them well with the hands like Sowens [Seeds? Suds?] then put all the Wine thro a large hair Sieve and turn it into a Cask or [illegible] - the remainder for filling up to be Bottled - The Cask must

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35 Rosemount Recipe for raisin Wine For half a Hogshead Take one and a half Cwt of Malaga raisins and half a Cwt of Smyrna - pick the stalks from the Malaga and separate them from each other - Put the raisins into a Vat with 70 pints of cold Spring water. Then stir them well together with a [illegible] [Stick?] and cover the vat with a Blanket Stir every morning and Evening for the first 14 days (always covering well up as before After that Stir only every morning - In 3 weeks the raisins will begin to rise to the top. The stirring to be continued daily till the fermentation becomes very Strong and the liquor has acquired a [lime? fine?] taste and Smell; it is then fit to be put into the Cask which must be done in the following manner - Put a Sowens [Starch?] over a Tub. put the raisins into it and squeeze them well with the hands like Sowens [Seeds? Suds?] then put all the Wine thro a large hair Sieve and turn it into a Cask or [illegible] - the remainder for filling up to be Bottled - The Cask must