Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

Ten thousand receipts from the great Victorian household compendium — cookery, brewing, dyeing, gilding, fireworks, medicine, farriery and the rest of the useful arts, in one volume.

Wines

11 receipts in this part of Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts.

Wines

The term wine is properly applied only to the fermented juice of the grape, but is popularly used in a more extended sense. What are termed…

Another, very fine

To every 3 qts. of juice add as much of cold water, and to every 3 qts. of the mixture add 3 lbs. of good, pure sugar. Put it into a cask…

Another (Take of cold soft water galls)

Take of cold soft water, 10 galls.; strawberries, 9 galls. Ferment. Mix, raw sugar, 25 lbs.; red tartar, in fine powder, 3 oz.; 2 lemons…

Another (Pick the berries when quite)

Pick the berries when quite ripe, put in a kettle of boiling water, till the jar is hot through; then take them out, and strain them…

Another (Take of cold soft water galls) (II)

Take of cold soft water, 19 galls.; Malaga raisins, 50 lbs.; white tartar, in powder, 4 oz. Ferment. Mix ginger, in powder or bruised 20…

Domestic Wines (Draw off what will run without)

and draw off what will run without squeezing. | Then press the rest, and if not sweet enough add a sufficient quantity of sugar to make it…

Management of Domestic Wines

To Guard against Unripe Fruit. If the season proves bad so that some fruits are not sufficiently ripe, immediately after the vinous…

Domestic Wines (To Take Away the Ill Scent)

To Take Away the Ill Scent of Wines. shells and crab's claws, burnt into powder, 1 oz. Bake a long roller of dough, stuck well with of each…

Foreign Wines (To Restore Pricked British)

To Restore Pricked British Wines. Rack the wines down to the lees into another cask, where the lees of good wines are fresh; then put a…

To Manage Foreign Wine-Vaults

The principal object to be attended to in the management of foreign wine-vaults is to keep them of a temperate heat. Care must be taken…

Foreign Wines (Take any quantity of damsons)

Or, take any quantity of damsons or black sloes, and strew them with some of the deepest colored wine and as much sugar as will make it…

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