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Title
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To Make Cousin Beckwiths Cowslip Wine
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Date
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1694/1795
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Description
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A method for making wine by boiling sugar, water, and lemons, then mixing in cowslip flowers, liquor, and yeasted bread.
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Transcript
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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
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Caylor, Karmen
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Le, Vincent
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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.
