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ORANGE WINE (an easy way of making)

In making orange wine it may be calculated that ten Seville oranges and three pounds of loaf sugar are required for every gallon of wine. If, therefore, it is wished to make nine gallons of wine, put the strained juice of ninety Seville oranges and twenty-seven pounds of loaf sugar into a cask which is perfectly sweet and dry. Put the pulp from which the juice has been squeezed into a large pan, and pour over it a gallon and a half of water; let it stand for twenty-four hours, then strain it into the cask. If the flavour of the orange-rind is desired, though the wine will be more generally agreeable without it, peel half the oranges, and put the thin rinds into another pan; then pour over them half the quantity of water which was on the pulp, and let them also infuse twenty-four hours, when strain the liquid into the cask. Pour a gallon and a half of water again over the pulp and rinds, let this stand for a day, then add it to the rest; and repeat this performance until the cask is quite full, which will be in about a week. Stir the contents daily. Three days after the cask is full, bung it up closely, and bottle the wine in nine months. It may be used after it has been bottled three months. Time, ten days to make the wine. Probable cost, 2s. 2d. per gallon. Sufficient for a nine-gallon cask.