Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

Home-Made Wines

15 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

Cheap Champagne (Gallons previously to bruising)

20 gallons previously to bruising them, or they may le white Bordeaux wine; 20 gallons German or advantageously bruised or minced in the…

The Use of Glycerine in Wine

drawn off. The water is now added, and the Glycerine differs from sugar in not fermenting whole macerated for 30 or 40 hours, more for 30…

General Receipt for Making cider settle

Fermentation will cease at Wine from Dry Saccharine Fruit. once. When, after a few days, the cider has Fruit. once. When, after a few days…

Honey or Mead Wine

Honey, fruit. A superior family wine . III. As the last, 74 pounds fruit, and bran- 20 pounds; cider, 12 gallons ; ferment, then dy 3 per…

Imitation Champagne

Stoned ripe Grape, Currant, Gooseberry and Champagne. Stoned ripe Grape, Currant, Gooseberry and raisins, 7 pounds; loaf sugar , 21 pounds…

To Make Blackberry Wine

To make 10 gallons of this cheap and excellent receipt is one of the best on the subject: 40 pounds fruit are to be…

Cider Wine

Let the new cider from sour apples (ripe, sound fruit preferred), wood, put into a hole bored in the top of the ferment from 1 to 3 weeks…

Ripe Gooseberry Wine

the ripe and well picked red gooseberries into a tub or pan, bruise the fruit well, and leave it uncovered for 24 hours. Squeeze the juice…

Fine Grape Wine

In order to good cellar, clean casks, press, etc. First of all, have your grapes well ripened; gather them in dry weather, and…

Ginger Wine (Boil pounds of a rose color)

Boil 20 pounds of a rose color, let the grapes remain in a sugar in 7 gallons water for half an hour, longer time you leave the grapes…

Ginger Wine (Another Pro- must be submerged)

Another Pro- must be submerged fully 4 inches in a bucket cess. Boil 26 pounds raw sugar in 7 gallons of cold water. The gas thus passes…

To Remedy Ropiness in Wine

The peculiar cloudy, stringy, oily appearance 744. Το Fine White Wine with which do not contain much tannin. M. Eggs. To fine 60 gallons…

To Fine a Pipe of Port Wine

Take the whites and shells of ten good eggs, and beat them up to a froth in a wooden cause the coagulation or precipitation of the finings…

To Ripen Wine

Dealers adopt liar taste termed flat. For the second stage Poux the wine becomes thick, and has a pecиvarious ways to hasten the ripening…

To Remedy Sour Wine

The souring of wine is produced by various cirfrom its having been kept in a warm cellar where it has been exposed to…

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