The art of making wines from fruits, flowers, and herbs, all the native growth of Great Britain ... With a succinct account of their medicinal virtues ... / Revised, corrected, and greatly enlarged, by W. Graham.

  • Graham, William, of Ware
Date:
[1760?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of making wines from fruits, flowers, and herbs, all the native growth of Great Britain ... With a succinct account of their medicinal virtues ... / Revised, corrected, and greatly enlarged, by W. Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * f 7 1 ties, keeping them in cool places, for there is no¬ thing damages any fort of wines more than heat, -3 • Another Method of making Goofberry Wine: WHEN the weather is dry, gather your goofberries about the time they are half ripe i pick them clean, and put the quantity of a peck in a convenient veiTel, and bruife them with a piece of wood, taking as much care as poflible to keep the feeds whole. When you have done this, put the pulp into a canvafs or hair bag, and prefs out all the juice -9 and to every gallon of the goof¬ berries, add about three pounds of fine loaf-fugar 5 mix it all together by flirring it with a flick, and as foon as the fugar is quite diffolved, pour it into a convenient cafk, that will hold it exadly , and ac¬ cording to the quantity let it (land, viz. if about eight or nine gallons, it will take a fortnight; if twenty gallons, forty days, and fo in proportion ; taking care the place you fet it in be cool. After Handing the proper time, draw it off from the lees, and put it into another fweet veiTel of equal fize, or into the fame, after pouring the lees out, and making it clean , let a cafk of ten or twelve gallons Hand about three months, and twenty gallons five months •, after which it will be fit for bottling oft. Its Virtues.] This is a curious cooling drink, taken with great fuccefs in all hot difeafes, as fe¬ vers, fmall-pox, the hot fit of the ague*, it flops laxation, is good in the bloody-flux, cools the heat of the liver and Homach, Hops bleeding, and mi¬ tigates inflammations *, it wonderfully abates flu fil¬ ings and rednefs of the face, after hard drinking, or the like ; provokes urine, and is good again it the Hone •, but thofe that are of a very phlegmatic conflitution fhould not make ufe of it. /
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