To Make Cousin Beckwiths Cowslip Wine

Title: To Make Cousin Beckwiths Cowslip Wine
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A method for making wine by boiling sugar, water, and lemons, then mixing in cowslip flowers, liquor, and yeasted bread.
Transcript: To every Gallon of water put 2 pounds of Sugar Cold & boyle it in an houre and a halfe then take it into something to coole then pare and slice your Lemmons and put 2 Lemmons to every Gallon, then when it is new milk warm put first your Cowslips into your Barril & poure your liquor on to them take a white bread tost with barm into it, when it has done working Clay it up and let it stand a month, & put in to every Bottle a Lump of hard sugar, remember to beat it in once a day for 3 days working.
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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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