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Bittany Wine

Ingredients

• 6 gallons of water
• 12 pounds of sugar
• 1/2 peck of sage
• 1 1/2 pecks of bittany
• a small bunch of rosemary
• 6 spoonfuls of ale yest
• 1/4 pint of lemon-juice

Instructions

Put your sugar and water together. Let it boil two hours; then, after taking it off the fire, put in the sage, bittany, and rosemary; cover, and let it remain till almost cold; then put the ale yest; stir it well together, and let it stand two or three days, stirring two or three times each day. Then put it in your cask, adding the lemon-juice; when it has done working, bung it close, and, when fine, bottle it.

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Source

The Lady's Own Cookery Book (1844).