This in a week will cut the rope and bring it to a fine, thin, fluid
state. Then rack it into a clean hogshead, and put to it one quart of
forcing; stir them well in the hogshead and bung it close up. If but a
thin rope, use a less quantity of the allum, and work it the same way.
CYDERS bad flavour'd.
Some cyders in keeping are apt to get reasty, thro' the ill quality of
the fruit; and sometimes thro' the badness of the cask will get musty,
or fusty.
To remedy these evils, you must throw it in ferment, if its body is
strong, with yest and jalap, and let it ferment three or four days;
which will throw off the greatest part of the taste; then stop the
ferment. If a hogshead, put to it one pound of sweet spirit of nitre,
and bung it up close. This will cure the bad flavour if any left, and
likewise keep it from growing flat.
To colour CYDER.
In many places, particularly where the soil is light, and the orchard
lays rising, the juice of the fruit is nearly white, and tho' the
cyder may be strong, it doth not appear to be so, by reason of its
colour, which always prejudices the buyer against it.
Many people spoil a great deal of good cyder by boiling and mixing
melasses with it, to give it a colour; which not only gives it a bad
red colour, but makes it muddy, as well as bad tasted.
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