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WINE, JUNIPER.

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which time bottle or fill a keg in which has been burned

some brimstone; bung tight. (See No. 418.)

380. "Wine Grapes.

11 gallons oflightly-jiressed juice ofsweet grapes; fill a

10-gallon keg to the bung; let it stand in a warm place,

and keep it full during fermentation; after it has settled

draw it offin a clean keg; filter the dregs ofthe first, and

add the clear to the bquid that has been drawn off. In

the month of March the second fermentation begins, then

lift the bung; when the second fermentation is over,ifthe

"wine is red,fine with the "udiite of 1 eggdjeaten to a froth,

but when white, with a mixture composed of 1 ounce of

isinglass steeped in a pint of the "uune, and beaten and

mixed as"with the egg; put the red wine in a pitched keg,

the white in a brimstone keg, and bung tight.

381. "Wine, Greek.

Take a suflicient quantity of perfectly ripe grapes to

make 10 gallons of juice, and expose them to the sun for

ten days; press out the juice in a boiler, and keep it over

a fire until it attains the boiling point; then atld 5 ozs. of

sea-salt; take it from the fire, and let it stand for 8 days,

then bottle.

382. Wine, Juniper.

121 gallons of hot water.

^ ounce ofground coriander-seed.

66 lbs. ofground juniper berries and

6 lbs. ofbrown sugar.

When the liquid is cooled to 100° Fahrenheit, add 1

pint of good brewers' yeast, and put all in a keg with the