refine and clear it; then it must be drawn off into clear casks, or
bottled, which is far the best. Give these wines age and they are
most delicious.


76. DINNER WINE OR ENGLISH PATENT WINE

From garden rhubarb, which will not lend to intemperance. An
agreeable and healthy wine is very frequently made from the
expressed juice of the garden rhubarb. To each gallon of juice add
1 gallon of soft water, in which 7 lbs. of brown sugar have been
dissolved; fill a keg or barrel with this proportion, leaving the
bung out, and keep it filled with sweetened water as it works off
until clear. Any other vegetable extract may be added, if this
flavour is not liked. Then bung down, or bottle, as you desire.
These stalks will furnish about 3/4 their weight in juice; fine and
settle with isinglass, as in the fruit wines. This has been patented
in England.


77. VARIOUS WINES

Take 28 gallons of clarified cider; 1 gallon good brandy, 1 lb.
crude tartar, (this is what is deposited by grape wines) 5 gallons
of any wine you wish to represent, 1 pint of sweet milk to settle
it; draw off in 24 or 36 hours after thoroughly mixing.


78. BLACKBERRY AND STRAWBERRY WINES