Crab Cider
To a thirty-gallon cask put one bushel clean picked grapes. Fill up with sweet cider, just from the press--crab preferred. Draw off in March, and it is fit for use. Add brandy, as much as you think best.--Mrs. A. D.
Seventeen hundred recipes from the housewives of Old Virginia — Sally Lunn and beaten biscuit, brandy peaches and Brunswick stew — gathered in 1879 by Patrick Henry's granddaughter, with tributes from the First Lady down.
To a thirty-gallon cask put one bushel clean picked grapes. Fill up with sweet cider, just from the press--crab preferred. Draw off in March, and it is fit for use. Add brandy, as much as you think best.--Mrs. A. D.