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Old-Time Recipes for Home Made Wines

by Helen S. Wright

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Take the thin peel of three oranges and three lemons; steep them in one-half gallon of brandy or rum, close stopped for two or three days. Then take three quarts of water and one and one-half pounds of loaf sugar clarified with the whites of two eggs. Let it boil one-quarter hour, then strain it through a fine sieve, and let it stand till cold; strain the brandy with the peels, add the juice of three oranges and five lemons to each gallon. Keep it close stopped up five weeks, then bottle it.

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