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Title
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To Make Green Goosbury [gooseberry] Wine. 1706
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Date
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1694/1795
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Description
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A recipe for making gooseberry wine by steeping gooseberries with sugar, refined with isinglass, in a multi-step process over the course of several months.
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Transcript
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[left margin: fo the 46]
Take 24 pounds of Green Goosberrys, top and taile them, beat them in a mortar, then take 8 quarts of spring water and steep the gooseberrys all night, then press them out and put thereto 9 pounds of fine sugar; let it stand an other night & then run it thorough a flannel bag, put it into a Vessel, and let the Vessel be full, when it has done workeing stoppe it up, and when it has stood a fortnight take to every 5 gallons hafe an ounce of ising glass cut small and steep'd in Renish Wine or white wine, Draw some of the wine and beat it up wth Ising glass, put it into the Vessel and mix them well togather to stand a Month, and bottle it off with a lump of loaf Sugar in every Bottle, and let it run through a peice of Muslin in the funnel.
Draw your wine from your grounds before you put your finein in; halfe an ounce of Isinglass if good is enough for 10 Gallons of wine, it is better to stand 3 months in the Vessel after it is fined before you bottle it of you are obliged not to give the receipt to any body.
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Contributor
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Caylor, Karmen
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Le, Vincent
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Grimm, Stephanie
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Salahuddin, Shafiya
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Source
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Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
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Publisher
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George Mason University Libraries
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Rights
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Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
