quantities of cinnamon, cloves, mace, and allspice into a saucepan,
with ½ pint of water; let it boil until it is reduced one-half. Boil a
bottle of port wine; burn a portion of the spirit out of it by applying a
lighted paper to the saucepan. Put the roasted lemon and spice into
the wine; stir it up well, and let it stand near the fire 10 minutes.
Rub a few knobs of sugar to taste on the rind of a lemon, put the
sugar into a bowl or jug, with the juice of half a lemon (not roasted),
pour the wine into it, grate some nutmeg into it, sweeten it to your
taste, and serve it up with the lemon and spice floating in it.
Oranges are sometimes introduced instead of lemons.
Blackberry Wine.—Mix 45 qt. ripe blackberries, well picked and
pressed, with 10 lb. good honey, and 26 lb. strong, bright, moist
sugar; boil it with 12 gal. soft water and the whites of 12 eggs, well
beaten, until it is reduced to 10 gal., skimming it until perfectly clear.
Strain it into a tub, and let it stand until the next day, then pour it
clear off the lees, and boil it again ¾ hour, adding the lees filtered
twice, and 2 oz. isinglass dissolved in 1 qt. water. Skim well, and put
in 2 oz. Jamaica pepper, cloves, and best ginger, all bruised, and tied
loosely in a piece of muslin. Put into your cooler the thin rinds of 6
Seville oranges and 1 pint lemon juice; strain the liquor upon them,
stir well, and when cool enough, work it with 1 pint fresh yeast
stirred well into 1 gal. of the liquor. Cover it up close, and let it work
5 or 6 days, taking off the top scum and stirring twice daily; then
strain, and filter it into the cask, put on the bung lightly, keep the
cask well filled up, and when it has ceased fermenting, let a day
elapse, and add 2 qt. French brandy, and 1½ oz. isinglass, dissolved
in a little water, and mix with 1 gal. of the wine 10 minutes, 1 oz.
bitter almonds blanched and slit, and 6 oz. sugar candy broken
small. Stop up the bung, paste strong white paper over it, or coarse
linen, and place plenty of sand over all, wetted a little. Keep it 2
years in a cool cellar, then bottle it; seal the corks, and keep in bottle
2 years; then use it. If allowed greater age, it will still improve.
Bucellas.—Press the pulp and juice out of 30 lb. Lisbon grapes,
add 6 gal. cold soft water that has been well boiled; stir well, and
covering the vessel close, let it stand 24 hours; add 30 lb. bright,