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Prepared Cider for Imitating Wines.
Takethe cider
■when it suits your taste, and put it into a good
strong barrel, and add 3 gallons of Apple Whiskes'
a small
quantity of nnistard seeds; bung up tight and let ferment. In
a day or so bore a gimlet hole in the bung, and put a spile into
it, so as you can let somd of the gas out, so as to prevent the
barrel bursting. When fermentation is done, draw off, and
ciean out the barrel, then put the cider in again, and bung it up
close.
Sugar Coloring.
Take I pounds of brown sugar, boil It well and burn it so that
it will taste bitter, thin it with water while on the Are, pouring
in but a little at a time, and keep stirring aii the time. If you
pour too much in at a time, it will explode, and may burn you.
After you have thinned it down to its proper consistency, strain
It while warm.
Cooling Wines.
Always ice. white wines in summer, if the weather be hQt; but
with red wines this must not be regarded, as a great degree of
cold is apt to affect their flavor. If your cellar be of the requi
site degree of coldness, say 52° and the thermometer stand at
70°, the wine is full cold enough to be grateful; and, brought
directly from the cellar to the guest, (which it should always be
at that season,) the outside of the bottle will be clouded, a sure
test that the wine is sufficiently cold. Where ice is not obtain
able the bottle may be hung up in a flannel bag, previously
soaked in water in the full glare of the sun's rays, where there
is also a strong draft of air. The constant evaporation
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keeping the bag dripping wet. will cool the wine almost to tne
freezing point. Th'e water of a covered well or spi'ing, arawu
fresh in which a pound or two of salt is thrown, placed in a
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and agreeable point.
Essence of Lemon.
1 oz. Oil of Lemon.
1 quart Alcohol (95 percent.),
pint water,
oz. Citric Acid.
Grind the citric acid to a powder in a porcelain mortar; Uis-
solve it in the water. Then cut the oil of lemon in the alcohol
and add the acid water.
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