Mary Gold [marigold] wine

Title: Mary Gold [marigold] wine
Date: 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]
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Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Le, Vincent; Grimm, Stephanie; 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.