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To Clear Cider

To clear and 845. Fine Champagne Cider is made improve cider generally, take 2 quarts of as follows :-To 100 gallons of good cider put ground horseradish and 1 pound of thick 3 gallons of strained honey , or 24 pounds of gray filtering paper to the barrel, and either good white sugar. Stir well and set it aside shake or stir until the paper has separated for a week. Clarify the cider with half a gal- into small shreds, and let it stand for 24 lon of skimmed milk, or + pound of dissolved hours, when the cider may be drawn off by isinglass, and add 4 gallons of pure spirits.

After 2 or 3 days bottle the clear cider, and it will become sparkling. In order to produce a slow fermentation, the casks containing the fermenting liquor must be bunged up tight.

It is a great object to retain much of the carbonic gas in the cider, so as to develop itself after being bottled. means of a syphon or a stop-cock. Instead of paper, a preparation of wool may be taken, which is to be had in the market here, and which is preferable to paper, as it has simply to be washed with water, when it may be used again. 854. To Clean a Foul, Sour Cask, and Restore the Taste of the Wood. In