page 63 [numbered from back]: Damson Wine receipt

mdm Piffards recept for Elder wine 63
Take 20 pound of malagoe reasons shred them
and put them into six gallons of spring
water 9 or 10 dayes then dreyne the water
clean from them tunn it into a vessell
When you tunne it put into it three
pints of the ??ter juyce of Elder-berryes being
full ripe stop it up close to worke and a bout
a month after bottle itt.
line divider
damson wine
the worst
in the world


to 4 pound of fruit take 2 quartes of
water and a pound of sugar let the
water and sugar boil together till
no ?uct, scum arises then put in your
fruit and lett it gentely boile till
your wine have a tinkure then rune
it though a hare sive when its cold
bottle it
to 4 pound of fruit take 2 quartes of
water and a pound of sugar lett the
water and a pound of sugar lett the
water and sugar boil together till
no ??? scum arises then put in
scum arises yn put in your
frui and lett it gentely boile till
fruit and lett it gentely boile till
your wine have a tinkure then rune
it through a hare sive wn its cold
it through a hare sive when its cold