Mary Gold [marigold] wine

Item

Title
Mary Gold [marigold] wine
Date
en 1694/1795
Description
A recipe for wine made by boiling sugar and egg white with marigold flowers and lemon, mixed with sack (a kind of white wine)
Transcript
Take nine Galons of Spring Watter boyl with 18 pounds of pouder Suger the whites of 12 Egs Small - beat Scim it as it Risses when clear pore the watter boyling hot upon a peck of marygold floors Cover it close & let it stand till it be Cold then put in 100 Spounfull of good Barm the juce of 6 Larg lemons the pill of one keep it close coverd for 3 days then strean it & put it in a good vesell [inserted left margin: with 3 quarts of best Sack in it it must stand 2 Mounths then botled]
Contributor
Caylor, Karmen
Le, Vincent
en Grimm, Stephanie
en Salahuddin, Shafiya
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.