Old-Time Recipes for Home Made Wines

To Remove Ropiness From Wine

Add a little catechu or a small quantity of the bruised berries of the mountain ash.

To Restore Wine When Sour or Sharp

1. Fill a bag with leek-seed, or of leaves or twisters of vine, and put either of them to infuse in the cask.

2. Put a small quantity of powdered charcoal in the wine, shake it, and after it has remained still for forty-eight hours, decant steadily.