Concerning CIDER.

The Cider of the Bromsbury-crab yields a far greater proportion ofSpirits, in the distillation, than any of the others.

Crabs and Bears mixed, make a very pleasing Liquor, and mucdsooner ripe than Bears alone.

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Of CIDER. By Captain Sylas Tasks-

H Erefordjhire affords several sorts of Cider-Apples, as the

sorts of Red-ftrakes, the Gennet-moyle , the Summer-viok »or is diet, and the Winter-fillet ; with many other sorts which Ateused only to make Cider. Of which some use each sort simply hothers mix many sorts together. This Country is very well stored whyother sorts of Apples ; as Bippins, Bearmains, Kc. of which there imuch Cider made, but not to be compared to the Cider drawn fi 01

the Cider-Apples ; among which the Red-ftrakes bear the Bell;in itself scarce edible ; yet the Juice belrxv —^pleasant in Tast^

_ — compared to the Cider drawn

. .'Espies among which the Red-ftrakes bear the Bell; a f .

in itself scarce edible ; yet the Juice being pressed out, is immediate ypleasant in Taste, without any thing of that rejlringency which st hwhen incorporated with the Meat , or JleJb of the Apple . Ittimes three Months before it comes to its clearness, and fix Mo ftbefore it comes to a ripeness fit for drinking ; yet I have tasted °three Tears old, very pleasant, though dangerously strong. The fy .jof it, when fine , is of a sparkling yellow, like Canary, of a good

Body, and oily : Th tTafte, like the Flavour or Berftime of excelwBeaches , very grateful to the Balate and Stomach. t

Gennet-moyles make a Cider of a smaller Body than the former, rvery pleasant, and will last -a year. It is a good eating pleasant 1 **..Fruit, when ripe, and the best Tart-Apple (as the Redftrakebefore its ripeneis. The Tree grows with certain knotty extuber& nCupon the branches and boughs • below which knot we cut off ^the thickness of a Man’s wrist, and place the knot in the ground, ^

makes the root', and this is done to raise this fruit • but very rarelygrafing , e

Of Fillets of both sorts ( viz. Summer and Winter) I haveCider of that proportionate taste and strength, that I have deceived y .ral experienced Balates, with whom (simply ) it hath passed for ,

Wine ; and dashing it with Red-Wine, it hath passed for Claret'-,mingled with the Syrup of Raff yes it makes an excellent ^ or !l/p hwine: The fruit is not so good as the Gennet-moyle to eat: Th e . r ^ter fillet makes a lasting Cider , and the Summer fillet an early u ^

but both very strong • and the Apples mixt together make a gCider. , p,

These Apples yield a Liquor more grateful to my Balate ( a *^ aC jeesteem’d of in Herefordjhire by the greater Ciderists ) than any t

of Bippins and Bearmains ; of which Sorts we leave very good m ^ j

Country, and those also both Summer and Winter of both Sorts,of which I have drank the Cider ; but prefer the other. f th c

Grounds separated only with a Hedge and ‘Ditch, by reason ° ^ .

difference of Soils, have given a great Alteration to the f^ftandstS

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