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each pint of juice take a pound of sugar. Place this over the fire and let it
boil for 15 minutes, skimming all the time. Now ready to put in bottles or jars.
Red currant juice with sugar.
This is made as black currant juice with sugar.
Black currant juice without sugar.
Clean three gallons currants and put them with half a gallon raspberries in a
thoroughly cleaned and dry barrel, size according to the quantity. Pour over it
boiling well water enough to leave room only for fermentation. Then let the
barrel lay in a cellar for a couple of days. But during this time stir it
several times with a spade adopted for the purpose; shortly before it goes to
the cellar add to it a pint of alcohol. The barrel is now immediately closed and
covered with a dough of ashes and water around the hole. In
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