[ Mrs. Philips of the Heath House Staffordshire Approvd & Good Ginger Wine ] Sarah Creighton Wilkins
Date: Recorded sometime in 1810. | 1810/01/01 to 1810/12/31
Source:
Manuscript Notebook of Sarah Creighton Wilkins
Institution: Nova Scotia Archives
| Source Origin: MacDonald Family Fonds
| Reference: MG 1 No. 1 / Microfilm Reel 10,618
A recipe for fruity ginger wine.
Mrs. Philips of the Heath House 1810
Staffordshire approvd & good
Ginger Wine
3 pound Lump Sugar, 2 Lemmons & 2
Seville oranges, 1 Gallon of Water 1 Once
of Ginger bruis’d; the peel of the Lemmon
& Oranges, the Whites of 5 or 6 Eggs to be
all boil’d together ¾ of an hour, then put
into a Tub; & when Cool, add a little
yeast upon a toasted bread, & let it
work two days; then Turn into the
Cask & add the Juice of the Lemmons
& Oranges & about 6 pounds of Jar
Raisons chop’d to ten or 12 Gallons of
the Wine. Keep it one year in the
Barrel -- it will keep a long time in
the Bottles -- Spring is the best time
to make it
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