Excellent Gingerwine

New system of domestic cookery, forme... · Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby · 1806
Source
New system of domestic cookery, formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families
Time
Cook: 20 min Total: 20 min
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success · extracted 13 days ago
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Ingredients (7)
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Instructions (8)
  1. Put into a very nice boiler ten gallons of water, twelve pounds and a half of lump sugar, with the whites of six or eight eggs well beaten and strained; mix all well while cold.
  2. When the liquor boils, skim it well.
  3. Put in half a pound of common white ginger bruised, boil it twenty minutes.
  4. Have ready the very thin rinds of ten lemons, and pour the liquor on them.
  5. When cool, turn it with two spoonfuls of yeast.
  6. Put a quart of the liquor to two ounces of isinglass shavings, while warm, whisk it well three or four times, and pour all together into the barrel.
  7. Next day stop it up.
  8. In three weeks bottle, and in three months it will be a delicious and refreshing liquor; and though very cool, perfectly safe.
Original Text
Excellent Gingerwine. Put into a very nice boiler ten gallons of water, twelve pounds and a half of lump sugar, with the whites of six or eight eggs well beaten and strained; mix all well while cold; when the liquor boils, skim it well; put in half a pound of common white ginger bruised, boil it twenty minutes. Have ready the very thin rinds of ten lemons, and pour the liquor on them; when cool, turn it with two spoonfuls of yeast; put a quart of the liquor to two ounces of isinglass shavings, while warm, whisk it well three or four times, and pour all together into the barrel. Next day stop it up; in three weeks bottle, and in three months it will be a delicious and refreshing liquor; and though very cool, perfectly safe.
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