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p.57-58 TO MAKE ELDER WINE AT CHRISTMAS
Take five pounds of Malaga or Lipara raisins, rub them clean, and shred them small. Then take five quarts of water, boil it an hour, and when it is near cold put it in a tub with the raisins; let them steep ten days, and stir them once or twice a day. Then strain it through a hair sieve, and by infusion draw ( Read more... )

p.57 ELDER WINE (FLAVORED WITH HOPS)
The berries, which must be  ripe, are to be stripped from the stalk, and squeezed to a . Stir and squeeze this pulp every day for four days; then separate the juice from the pulp by passing through a cane sieve or basket. To every gallon of juice, add one-half gallon of cold water. Boil four and one-half gallons ( Read more... )

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301. _To make_ ELDER WINE.
Take twenty pounds of malaga raisins, pick and chop them, then put them into a tub with twenty quarts of water, let the water be boiled and
stand till it be cold again before you put in your raisins, let them remain together ten days, stirring it twice a day, then strain the
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