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Ginger Wine - Mrs. Booty Leyburn
20 Quarts of Water (Wine Measure) 12 pound of Lump sugar, 6 ounces of the best white Ginger bruised, the rind of 12 Lemons pared very thin boil altogether 1/2 an hour when almost cold put it into your Cask with the rinds, juice, and Ginger & 2 lb of Raisins, cut in half and 4 spoonsfull of yeast. Stir it every day, for a fortnight, then add 1/2 an ounce of Isinglass, and 3 pints of Brandy. It must remain 3 months in the Cask and then drawn off with great care to prevent the sediment rising - NB. Whiskey answers quite as well as Brandy as it make the Wine more brilliant in Color - 
For Cleaning Brass Coppers &c Mrs Swire
1/4 lb of Rotten stone 1/4 lb of soft soap boiled gently for three hours in 1 pint & half of soft water - 
Marangues - Mrs. H. Chaytn
The whites of four Eggs with 1/2 a pound of very finely sifted sugar beat them with a Silver spoon untill it becomes like a thick paste then put a sheet of paper on your baking tin drop them with a tea spoon the shape of an Egg a very slow oven will bake them in a few minutes take them off the paper and put in a little Italian cheese or preserve of any kind [press?] them together with Gum -

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Ginger Wine - Mrs. Booty Leyburn 20 Quarts of Water (Wine Measure) 12 pound of Lump sugar, 6 ounces of the best white Ginger bruised, the rind of 12 Lemons pared very thin boil altogether 1/2 an hour when almost cold put it into your Cask with the rinds, juice, and Ginger & 2 lb of Raisins, cut in half and 4 spoonsfull of yeast. Stir it every day, for a fortnight, then add 1/2 an ounce of Isinglass, and 3 pints of Brandy. It must remain 3 months in the Cask and then drawn off with great care to prevent the sediment rising - NB. Whiskey answers quite as well as Brandy as it make the Wine more brilliant in Color - For Cleaning Brass Coppers &c Mrs Swire 1/4 lb of Rotten stone 1/4 lb of soft soap boiled gently for three hours in 1 pint & half of soft water - Marangues - Mrs. H. Chaytn The whites of four Eggs with 1/2 a pound of very finely sifted sugar beat them with a Silver spoon untill it becomes like a thick paste then put a sheet of paper on your baking tin drop them with a tea spoon the shape of an Egg a very slow oven will bake them in a few minutes take them off the paper and put in a little Italian cheese or preserve of any kind [press?] them together with Gum -