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To make raspberry wine
to a nine Quart of water put three quartere of a pound of shugar
boile the water & shugar half an hour takeing ofe the scum as it rises
to every quart of water put a pound & half of rasberrys and when the
Liquor is as hot as you can suffer your hand in. boiled as before pour it out
into a wooden or earthen vessll put in the Rasberrys & bruise them with your
hand ^when the Liquor is as hot as you can suffer your hand in it then let it infuse five days stirring it every day then strain it
through a flannell bag and turn it into your Barrell, if the quantity you
make b 5 gallons put a pound of loaf shugar in the barrell and so in pro-
portion be it more or less if the barrell be one that cunary has been its the
better stop the vessell close and let it stand till it be fine you may try
it in a months time

Another
Take seven quart of water and boil it half an hour put into a
tub when lukewarm put into it 14 quart of rasberys, when they
have been in the ^water half an hour bruise them. take a gallon of water
[.]and put to it twelve pound of lisbon sugar, boil it and clarify it up
well. boil it half an hour after it ^is thourougly qualified, take it off the
fire and when it is lukewarm put it into the rasberrys and water, and
stir it well together, to infuse 24 hours. then strain it off from the
rasberys and put it into a cask. put into it three pints of brandy an
ounce and half of Cocheneal bruisd. when it hath done working stop
it up close if fine in three months bottle it.

A reciept for white=wine
take five Gallons and half ofSpring or rain water. and boil it half
an hour. put it into a tub, when it is cold put in 25 pound of
malage raisons, let it be covered and stir'd a quarter of an hour twice
aday when the reasons have been infus'd eight days of the twelve,
take out one gallon of the liquor and put into an earthen pot to thre
three pound lisbon sugar cover'd & stir'd as the water and reasons
above=mention'd for four days. at the end of twelve days bruise the
raisons and press the liquor srain them and put it into a cask, and
the gallon which was sweetned with it stop it up [.] close for thr 3

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