Folio 1, Page 12a, Verso
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Title
Folio 1, Page 12a, Verso
Subject
Recipe for Wine (Ginger Wine?)
Description
To every Gallon of spring water, add-
seven pounds of Lisbon sugar.
Boil them a Quarter of an hour
& keep scuming it Well, When the liquor is Cold, Squeeze in the juice-
of two Lemons. Boil the peels with 2 ounces of ginger .
in 3 pints of water, When it is cold put it .
alltogether into the Barrel with 2 spoonful of Barm, a Quarter
of an ounce of Isinglass beat very thin, and 2 pounds of jar
raisins, [then]┌when done working┐Close it it up and let it stand seven weeks .
then bottle it,-
The best season to make it is in the Spring
seven pounds of Lisbon sugar.
Boil them a Quarter of an hour
& keep scuming it Well, When the liquor is Cold, Squeeze in the juice-
of two Lemons. Boil the peels with 2 ounces of ginger .
in 3 pints of water, When it is cold put it .
alltogether into the Barrel with 2 spoonful of Barm, a Quarter
of an ounce of Isinglass beat very thin, and 2 pounds of jar
raisins, [
then bottle it,-
The best season to make it is in the Spring
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Creator
Unknown
Source
F1P12V
Publisher
Gillespie Family
Date
1782 to 1808
Rights
Site licence
Format
Paper document pinned to page F1 P12V
Language
English
Type
Paper document
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To every Gallon of spring water, add seven pounds of Lisbon sugar, Boil them a Quarter of an hour & keep scuming it Well, When the liquor is Cold, Squeeze in the juice of two Lemons. Boil the peels with 2 ounces of ginger in 3 pints of water, When it is cold put it alltogether into the Barrel with 2 spoonful of Barm, a Quarter of an ounce of Isinglass beat very thin, and 2 pounds of jar raisins,then^ when done working Close it it up and let it stand seven weeks, then bottle it,-
the Best season to make it is in the spring.
the Best season to make it is in the spring.
Barm is the foam or scum formed on the top of a fermenting liquid, such as beer, wine, or feedstock, for spirits or industrial ethanol distillation. It was used to leaven bread, or set up fermentation in a new batch of liquor.
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Paper document pinned to page F1 P12V
The paper is slightly blued
The paper is slightly blued
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Unknown, “Folio 1, Page 12a, Verso,” The Huntroyd Receipts, accessed October 22, 2026, https://www.huntroyd.co.uk/items/show/19.
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