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whites into the vessel and in a few days it will be fine.
To clear Wine, Cyder.
Take half a pound of hartshorn, and dissolve it in cyder, if it be for cyder, or
Rhenish wine for any other liquor. This is quite sufficient for a hogshead.
OF BEER.
To make Spruce beer out of the Essence.
For a cask of eighteen gallons take seven ounces of the essence of spruce, and
fourteen pounds of molasses; mix them with a few gallons of hot water; put it
into the cask; then fill the cask with cold water, stir it well, make it about
luke warm; then add about two thirds of a pint of good yeast or the grounds of
porter; let it stand four or five days to work then bung it up tight, and let it
stand two or three days, and it will be fit for immediate use after it has been
bottled.
To make Spruce beer out of Shed Spruce.
To one quart of Shed Spruce, two gallons of cold water, and so in proportion to
the quantity you wish to make, then add one pint of molasses to every two
gallons, let it boil four or five hours and stand till it is luke warm, then put
one pint of yeast to ten gallons, let it work, then put into your cask and bung
it up tight, and in two days it will be fit for use.
To make Spruice beer another way.
Take four ounces of hops, let them boil half an hour in one gallon of water,
strain the hop water then add sixteen gallons of warm water, two gallons of
molasses, eight ounces of essence of spruce, dissolved in one quart of water,
put it in a clean
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