To make Orange Wine with Raisins | ||||
Take Thirty pounds of New Mallaga Raisins, Pick them clean, and chop | ||||
them Small you must have Twenty large Sevil Oranges, Ten | ||||
of them you must Pare as thin as for preserving, Boil about | ||||
Eight Gallons of Soft Water till a third Part be consumed | ||||
let it Cool a little, then put 5. Gallons of it Hot upon your | ||||
Raisins and Orange Peel, stir it well together cover it up, | ||||
and when ’tis Cold let it stand Five days, stirring it up | ||||
Once or twice a day, then pass it thro’ a Hair Sieve, and with | ||||
a Spoon press it as dry as you can, and put it in a Runlet* | ||||
fit for it, and put to it the Rinds of the other ten Oranges | ||||
cut as thin as the First.then make a Syrup of the Jouce* of | ||||
Twenty Oranges with a pound of White Sugar. It must be | ||||
made the day before you Tun it up*, stir it well together | ||||
and Stop it Close, let it stand 2. Months to clear | ||||
then Bottle it up. It will keep three years, and is Better | ||||
for keeping | ||||
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Transcribed by JMCN and CTW