To Make Cowslip wine

Title: To Make Cowslip wine
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for cowslip wine using loaf sugar, flowers, lemon syrup, and yeast, strained and kept in a closed vessel.
Transcript: 3 gallons of water 6 pound of lofe suger boyled in it when it is Colde put in to it one up heaped pecked- Peck of flowrs only the yelow tops yn mingle 3 ounces of sirupe of lemmons with one spoune full of yest let it work 3 dayes yn streane it & put it in to a vessell close stoped for a hole mounth yn Botele it [strikeout] up & cork it close & it will ceep a yr
Subject: See all items with this value sugar; See all items with this value water; See all items with this value yeast; See all items with this value lemons; See all items with this value cowslip (Primula veris)
Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Le, Vincent
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

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