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GIGGLE WATER
d'orange, 3 ounces; lemon juice,
pint. Rack it, bung
close, and in 3 months fine it down with isinglass,
ounce; in i month, if not sparkling, again fine it down,
and in 2 weeks bottle it, observing to put a piece of double
refined sugar, the size of a pea, into each bottle. The
bottles should be wired, and the corks covered with tin
foil.
262. TO MAKE BLACKBERRY WINE
To make 10 gallons of this cheap and excellent wine,
press the juice out of sufficient fresh ripe blackberries to
make 4^ gallons; wash the pomace in gallons soft
spring water, and thoroughly dissolve in it 6 pounds white
sugar to each gallon of water (brown sugar will do for
an inferior wine) ; strain the juice into this syrup, and
mix them. Fill a cask with it perfectly full, and lay a
cloth loosely over the bung-hole, placing the cask where
it will be perfectly undisturbed. In 2 or 3 days fermenta
tion will commence, and the impurities run over at the
bung. Look at it every day, and if it does not run over,
with some of the mixture which you have reserved in an
other vessel fill it up to the bung. In about 3 weeks, fer
mentation will have ceased, and the wine be still; fill it
again, drive in the bung tight, nail a tin over it, and let
it remain undisturbed until the following March. Then
draw it off, without shaking the cask, put it into bottles,
cork tightly and seal over. Some persons add spirit to the
wine, but instead of doing good, it is only an injury. The
more carefully the juice is strained, the better the quality