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15 an earthen steen that has a cover: then take five quarts of water, and three pounds of sugar, and boil them together; scum it well, and pour it boiling jhot on the currants: after it has stood 48 hours, strain it through a flannel bag into the vessel again; let it stand 14 days to settle, and then bottle it.

Your currants must be quite ripe, bruise them to a mesh with your hands, and to every quart of pulp, put the same quantity of water, mix them together in a tub, and let them stand till next day, then strain them through a hair sieve, and to each gallon, allow two pounds and a half of sugar; when the latter is quite melted, put the liquor in a cask, with a little dissolved isinglass: then to every two gallons add a pint of mountain wine; bung up the cask; when fine, draw it off. Wash the cask with a little brandy, strain the grounds through a bag, and put the whole into the cask again; add to every gallon half a pound more sugar. In a month’s time, bottle it.

The currants must be gathered when full ripe; strip them, bruise them in a mortar, and to every quart of pulp, put a pint of water that has been boiled, and let it stand till it grows cold; put it in a tub to ferment for 24 hours, then run it through a hair-sieve quite gently; to every gallon of liquor, allow two pounds and a half of coarse loaf-sugar; stir it well; then put it in your cask; and to every three gallons, put a pint of the best rectified spirits of wine; let it stand six weeks, and then bottle it.