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Damson Wine

Get sound ripe fruit, reject all that is stale and mouldy; pick off the stalks, and to four gallons of damsons add four gallons of boiling water. Let them soak four or five days, stirring them regularly every day with the hand. Add to every gallon of liquor three and a half pounds of good lump sugar, and when this is quite dissolved, put the whole into a cask with one quart of spirits to every three gallons. Let it remain twelve months, when it may be bottled for use.