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To make Cowslip wine
Take 12 quarts of water & 6 pound of sugar
let it boile an houre. then take it of & power it
on 2 pecks of pickt Cowslips & the skins of 2
Lemons. then put it into your stand. & when it is
cold squeaze out about halfe of the Cowslips &
put in 6 spoonfulls of yest. besure it work well &
ding it in 2 or 3 times & let it stand 3 daies
then draw it of into your barrell & bung it up &
let it stand 3 weekes then bottle it & cork it close.
To make Goosberry wine of ripe Goosberries
Take 10 quarts of water let it boile. & 2 pecks of
ripe goosberries breake them very well with your
hands & power your boiling water upon them. &
let them stand all night. & take to every 2 quarts
of liquor when it is strained one pound of fine
powder sugar. stir it well in keepe it close up
in a barrell. & let it stand 6 weekes then
bottle it.

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(146) To make Cowslip wine Take 12 quarts of water & 6 pound of sugar let it boile an houre. then take it of & power it on 2 pecks of pickt Cowslips & the skins of 2 Lemons. then put it into your stand. & when it is cold squeaze out about halfe of the Cowslips & put in 6 spoonfulls of yest. besure it work well & ding it in 2 or 3 times & let it stand 3 daies then draw it of into your barrell & bung it up & let it stand 3 weekes then bottle it & cork it close. To make Goosberry wine of ripe Goosberries Take 10 quarts of water let it boile. & 2 pecks of ripe goosberries breake them very well with your hands & power your boiling water upon them. & let them stand all night. & take to every 2 quarts of liquor when it is strained one pound of fine powder sugar. stir it well in keepe it close up in a barrell. & let it stand 6 weekes then bottle it.