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Goosberry Champagne To 1lb of Goosberries then picked and bruised put 1 quart of water, let it stand 3 days skimming it often to every Gallon of juice them strained put 3 lbs of loaf sugar, and put it into the cask, at the end of 3 or 4 Months, taste it if the sweetness be gone off, empty it into a Tub, clearing it of the settlement, then add to every Gallon 1 lb of the same sort of sugar pour it into the cask, let it stand 6 weeks and then Bottle it the cask must be each time time well washed with Brandy. The time for making it is when the berries are full grown but not beginning to turn ripe. The proper sor are the Green, White and Yellow To every 5 Gallons of Wine add one Bottle of Brandy and a little Isinglass. Mrs. Gamhan Ginger Beer Two Gallons of boiling water poured upon 2 oz of the best Ginger (beaten) 2 oz cream of Tartar, 2 lbs of loaf sugar, and the peel of a lemon, work it with a spoonful of new yeast, beaten with the white of an egg stir it into the liquor when milk warm. Mrs. G
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Goosberry Champagne To 1lb of Goosberries then picked and bruised put 1 quart of water, let it stand 3 days skimming it often to every Gallon of juice them strained put 3 lbs of loaf sugar, and put it into the cask, at the end of 3 or 4 Months, taste it if the sweetness be gone off, empty it into a Tub, clearing it of the settlement, then add to every Gallon 1 lb of the same sort of sugar pour it into the cask, let it stand 6 weeks and then Bottle it the cask must be each time time well washed with Brandy. The time for making it is when the berries are full grown but not beginning to turn ripe. The proper sor are the Green, White and Yellow To every 5 Gallons of Wine add one Bottle of Brandy and a little Isinglass. Mrs. Gamhan Ginger Beer Two Gallons of boiling water poured upon 2 oz of the best Ginger (beaten) 2 oz cream of Tartar, 2 lbs of loaf sugar, and the peel of a lemon, work it with a spoonful of new yeast, beaten with the white of an egg stir it into the liquor when milk warm. Mrs. G
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