Concerning CIDER.

some degree, mend Hard-Apple Cider, Terry, or a Drink made ofthe Mixtures of Apples and Tears ; and not impossible that some-what of the fame Nature may do good to French Wines also. ,

First, for French Wines, I think what I have in the Beginning 0this Discourse declared, as the Hint which first put me upon the Con-ceit, that the over -fermenting of Cider was the Cause that it lost ltSoriginal Sweetness, (viz. the making of three Sorts of Wine of 0,ieSort of Grapes ) is a Testimony that the first Sort of Wine hath 0°little of the gross Lee, and consequently ferments hut little, nor 10leth but little of the original Sweetness; which makes it evident tlithe same thing will hold in Wine, which doth in Cider : but the gj c ’ aDifficulty is, (if I be rightly inform’d) that they ulb to let thebegin to ferment in the Vat before they put it into' the Hogsheads, °other Vessels; and thus they do, that the Husks and other Filth (wh lCin the way they use must necessarily be mingled with the Wine) lT, ayrile in a Scum at the top, and so be taken off: Now if they please* ^soon as it is pressed, to pals the Wine through a Strainer without &pecting any such Turgation, and then use the same Method formerspreferib’d for Cider, I do not doubt but the gross Part of the Lee 0Wines being thus taken away, there will yet be enough left to g lV< ja Fermentation in the Bottles, or second Vessel, where it shall he .to stand, in case you have not Bottles enough to put up all the W tfrom which you have thus taken away the gross Lee. r

This Wine I know not whether it will last so long as the otused in the ordinary way, or not; but this I confidently believe,will not be so harsh as the lame would have been, if it had been u cin the ordinary way; and the Pleasantness of Tase, which lS ^unwholsome, is the chief thing which I prefer both in Wi fie anCider.

Now for the Hard-Apple Cider, that it will receive an Imp 1 " 0 '",tnent by this way of ordering, hath been long my Opinion jthis Year an Accident happen’d, which made it evident that * ' fnot mistaken in this Conjecture. For there was a Gentletnnn ^Herefordshire, this last Autumn, that by accident had not pt° v j C £(lCask enough for the Cider he had made; and having six orHogsheads of Cider for which he had no Cask, he lent to W orC \J^Glocejler , and even to Briftol, to buy some, but all in vain; ^when his Servants returned, the Cider that wanted Cask had 0some five Days in the Vat uncovered ; and the Gentleman ^ ^then dispatching a Bark for London with Cider, and having n ‘hand a Conveniency of getting Glass-Bottles, resolved to put 0of it into Bottles ; did so, and filled seven or eight Hampers withclearest of this Cider in the Vat, which had then never wrought ^. gbeen put into any other Vessel but the Vat ; the Bark in vV ^^r eC ^sCider came had a tedious Passage; that is, it was at least leven ^

before it came to London , and in that time most of his Cider m &

had wrought so much, that it was much harder than it word" ^

been, if it had, according to the ordinary way, lain still in the ^try, in the Place where it was first made and put up, and confo^ 11ly wrought but once. . ; n g,

But the other which was in Bottles, and escaped the brea .that is, by Accident, had leis of the Lee in it than other Bottles .or was not so hard stopped, but either before there was Force