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mash-tub for 14 days, tlien draw it off, and to every gal
lon of liquor add 3 pounds of loaf sugar. When the
sugar is dissolved, cask it; and, after it has done working,
bring it down. In 6 months it should be bottled, and the
corks tied down or wired. This produces a domestic real
clrampagne in no way inferior to the genuine imported
article.
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289. IMITATION WHITE FRONTIGNAC WINE
Boil 18 pounds white powdered sugar, with 6 gallons
water, and the whites of 2 eggs well beaten; then skim
it, and put in ^ peck elder flower from the tree that bears
white berries; do not keep them on the fire. When nearly
cold, stir it, and put in 6 spoonfuls lemon juice, 4 or 5
of yeast, and beat well into the liqiior; stir it every day;
put 6 pounds besf raisins, stoned, into the cask, and tun
the wine. Stop it close, and bottle in 6 months. When well
kept this wine is an excellent imitation of Frontignac.
290. IMITATION RED FRONTIGNAC WINE
This is made in the same manner, and with the same
ingredients as the white wine, except that dark elder
flowers are used instead of white.
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