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kingdome ; you shall know that your perry is
made of peares onely, and your cider of apples j
and for the manner of making thereof, it is done
after one fashion, that is to say, after your Peares
and Apples are well prickt from the stalkes,
rottennesse, and all manner of other filthe, you
shall put them in the presse mill which is made
with a mil-stone running round in a circle,
under which you shall crush your peares or
apples, and then straining them through a bagge
.of haire cloth, tunne up the same (after it hath
bene a little setled) into hogs-heads, barrels, and
other close vessels.
" Now after you have prest all, you shall save
that which is within the haire cloth bagge, and
putting it into severall vessels, put a pretty
quantity of water thereinto, and after it hath
stood a day or two, and hath beene well stirred
together, presse it over also againe, for this will
make a small perry or cider, and must be
spent first. Now of your best cider that which
you make of your summer or sweete fruit you
shall call summer or sweete cider or perry, and that
you shall spend first also ; and that which you
make of the winter and hard fruit, you shall call
winter and sowre cider, or perry •,
and that you
may spend last, for it will indure the longest."
We don't boil much cider nowadays, but this
was a custom in considerable favour with the
ancients.
" In many places," says another writer, " they
boyl their cider, adding thereto several spices,
which makes it very pleasant, and abates the
unsavoury smack it contracts by boyling, but