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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. 15 gallons of cider
  2. 40 lbs. of sugar
  3. Wine
  4. Must
  5. Apples
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Method

  1. Ingredients.
  2. — 40 lbs.
  3. of sugar, 15 gallons of cider.
  4. Mode.
  5. — The cider must be pure and made only from really ripe, souna apples (this is important).
  6. If the wine is to be quite sweet, add another 10 lbs.
  7. of sugar, and put all into the cider, letting it stand till dissolved.
  8. Put the liquor into a cask but leave it unfilled to the extent of 2 gallons.
  9. Put the cask into a cool position, with the bung out for 48 hours.
  10. After this bung it up, but let there be a small vent somewhere — in the bung would do — until the fermentation is over.
  11. Then bung up quite securely, and the wine will be ready for consumption in twelve months.
  12. There is no racking required in the manufacture of this wine.
  13. Time.
  14. — to remain in the cask twelve months.
  15. Average Cost, 2 s.
  16. 6 d.
  17. per gallon.
  18. Seasonable, make this in January or February

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