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Alcoholic Drinks
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To Still Mrs Spencer Spirets [spirits]
A process for making a distilled grain alcohol using malt. -
To Make unstilled Lemon Water
A recipe for lemon water using brandy, spring water, and sugar, boiled into a syrup and bottled. -
To Make the wine caled Necture [nectar]
Describes a process for creating a sweet wine by fermenting grapes with loaf sugar and lemon juice. -
To Make Mead
A process for making mead using honey, ale yeast, and water. -
To Make Green Goosbury [gooseberry] Wine. 1706
A recipe for making gooseberry wine by steeping gooseberries with sugar, refined with isinglass, in a multi-step process over the course of several months. -
To make goosbery wine
A recipe for gooseberry wine. -
To Make Elder Wine
This describes a process of making wine with (probably Malagousia) grapes, mixed with elderberry juice, and left to process for 6-8 weeks. -
To make Dutch Blomange [blancmange]
A recipe for Dutch blancmange using isinglass (a substance derived from the dried swim bladders of fish), white wine, lemons and lemon juice, egg yolks, sugar, aniseed water, unripe bananas, and port wine. -
To Make Cowslip wine
A recipe for cowslip wine using loaf sugar, flowers, lemon syrup, and yeast, strained and kept in a closed vessel. -
To Make Cousin Beckwiths Cowslip Wine
A method for making wine by boiling sugar, water, and lemons, then mixing in cowslip flowers, liquor, and yeasted bread. -
To Make Cherry Brandy
This recipe describes how to create a cherry brandy by fermenting cherries in brandy with lemon and saffron. The recipe notes it may help with colic or other stomach issues, including use for children. -
To Make All Sorts of Wines & Stiled Water
A section header for recipes of wines and stilled waters. -
To Make a Sack Poset [posset]
A recipe to make a thick custard/drink similar to pudding. -
To Make a Sack Poset [posset]
A recipe for a thick pudding-like dish made by mixing eggs, sack, and sugar with boiled cream and cooking these together. -
To fine Ale
A recipe to increase the quality of ale. -
Sr. Fleit Shephard’s receipt for a sack-poset [posset]
A transcribed poem. -
Sinemon [cinnamon] Water
A process for making a spiced brandy with cinnamon. -
Sider [cider] Royall
A process for making a sweetened, fortified cider using brown sugar and spirits. -
Sack Puding [Pudding] my Lady Abergavenry
A recipe for making pudding -
My Lady Plymoths Sack Poset [posset]
Describes a recipe for "sack posset," a kind of hot drink made with milk curdled with alcohol. This recipe uses sack, a kind of white wine. -
Mrs Erratts Elder wine
A recipe for wine made from raisins and elder. -
Mock Madeira
A process for making a mock version of madeira using Malaga grapes, brown sugar, and ale, fermented in casks with brandy, sugar candy, and isinglass. -
Metcalfs Cordial
A recipe for an alcoholic beverage made with rhubarb, senna, coriander, fennel seeds, cochineal (carmine), saffron, licorice, and raisins, all infused in brandy. -
Mary Gold [marigold] wine
A recipe for wine made by boiling sugar and egg white with marigold flowers and lemon, mixed with sack (a kind of white wine) -
Elder Brandy
A process for making a spiced, fruited brandy using elderberries, mace, and cloves (and possibly with bread crumbs).