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the barrel have a little tap hole, which close with a cork; after 5 or 6 weeks
put the juice in clean bottles. This is done by letting it run through the
little hole, in which then have two or three little sticks or twigs to prevent
the berries from going through. Now cork and seal the bottles and keep them in a
cellar.
Gooseberry juice.
Clean and otherwise prepare green or yellow gooseberries and thereupon pound
them with a piece of wood till they are all crushed and the juice begins to run.
Then stir in a pint of good yeast for each 16 or 20 gallons pounded berries. Now
cover them well and let them ferment eight or ten days. Then bring the juice
through a cloth by putting one ladle full at a time in the cloth and then
squeeze, continuing thus till it all is out. Now let it ferment in some kind of
a vessel, and let it remain covered four or five days. When it appears clear
pour it in bottles; cork
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