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A43774	Aphorisms upon the new way of improving cyder, or making cyder-royal lately discovered for the good of those kingdoms and nations that are beholden to others, and pay dear for wine ... : to which are added, certain expedients concerning raising and planting of apple-trees, gooseberry-trees, &c. with respect to cheapness, expedition, certain growing, and fruitfulness, beyond what hath hitherto been yet made known / by Richard Haines.	Haines, Richard, 1633-1685.	1684 (1684)	Wing H198; ESTC R11090	24,055	22

APHORISMS UPON The New Way of Improving CYDER OR MAKING CYDER-ROYAL LATELY DISCOVERED For the Good of those Kingdoms and Nations That are Beholden to Others and Pay Dear for WINE SHEWING That Simple Cyder frequently Sold for Thirty Shillings per Hogshead viz. Three-half-pence a Quart may be made as Strong Wholesom and pleasing as French Wine usually Sold for Twelve-pence a Quart Without Adding any thing to it but what is of the Juice of Apples And for One Penny or Three-half-pence a Quart more Charge may be made as good as Canary commonly Sold for two Shillings As also how one Acre of Land now worth Twenty Shillings may be made worth Eight or Ten Pound per Annum To which are Added Certain Expedients concerning RAISING and PLANTING OF Apple-trees Gooseberry-trees c. With Respect to Cheapness Expedition certain Growing and Fruitfulness beyond what hath hitherto been yet made known By RICHARD HAINES LONDON Printed by George Larkin for the Author and are to be had at the Marine and Carolina Coffee-House in Burching Lane near the Royal Exchange Until our Royal-Cyder-Office be Erected for Granting of Licenses of which we shall give a further Account shortly 1684. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ALL Kings Princes States Who have No Wines of their own Production ESPECIALLY To the most Sacred Majesty OF HIS SOVERAIGN LORD THE King of Great Britain c. AS ALSO To their most Excellent Majesties the Kings of the two Northern Crowns And to the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Provinces May it please Your Majesties and Lordships FOod Drink and Rayment are the prime Requisites of Humane Life Of Drinks the Juice of the Grape is esteemed the most Generous But since Providence has not Indulged every Nation with That of its own Growth and for that tho' the more Southern Countrys Enjoy it yet the more Northern that are without it do by the Coldness of their Climate most stand in need of strong Drinks And since Ale and Beer is too Cloudy and heavy and to furnish themselves with Wine they exhaust yearly a great part of their Treasure and Native Commodities I thought if I could find out and inform that part of the World how to prepare a sort of Liquor which might Answer all the Ends and Advantages of Wine and yet be of Your own Countries Production and afforded much Cheaper I might Deserve well of Your Majesties and Lordships and all Your Subjects both now and to Posterity That which nearest approaches the Nature of Wine is the Juice of Apples Wildings Pears and other Fruits commonly called Cyder Perry Currant Cherry and Gooseberry-Wine c. And with all or some of these Your respective Territories are or may be plentifully Furnisht The Defect hitherto has been First That few have applyed themselves to making of Cyder Secondly Much fewer are Those that know how to make even tollerable common simple Cyder Thirdly Their Cyder who made it Best Falls short of the Goodness of Wine in strength and Delicacy and besides by reason of its Coldness and Crudities was apt to Generate Wind and other Distempers and so proved not so wholsome to the Body For all these Inconveniences Here is found a proper and certain Remedy The SECRET is brought home to Your Doors and in the Following Papers spread before You So that hencefoth after a little Industry You need not for General use be beholden to any Forreiner for their Wines but Furnish Your selves as well and abundantly Cheaper at Home and Drink for Your own Healhs without Despising the Discoverer in Variety of Liquors of Your own Production altogether as good and Satisfactory How this Overture may be Resented I am not Prophet enough to fore-see The Incredulity of our King Henry the Seventh tho justly numbred amongst the wisest Monarchs of that Age is reported by some Authors to have cost him the Immense loss of the West-Indian Treasures which have since Enricht all the Kings Princes and States of Europe And even Ferdinand of Castile was beholding to the Importunities of his Lady Isabella for accepting that proffer'd Prize and the Discovery of that New World from a despised Columbus And however this Present thing or my self may be Censur'd or Contemn'd at first yet without the least doubt I believe that a time will come wherein all or most of the Kings Princes and States or at least their Subjects in those Nations that have no Wines of their own may have Cause to Rejoice either in the Use or Advantage which themselves may make thereof And that too without Raising any Burthensome Taxes or putting their Subjects to heavy Charges For as it must undoubtedly be of great Profit to all Nations that are unfurnisht with Wine of their own Production especially those whose Soil will afford the Materials In which respect I forget not the Kingdom of Poland to whom I made my Endeavours to transmit my Proposals but by reason of the remote distance and small Entercourse from hence thither I could not gain an Opportunity However I cannot but Recommend it as a thing of great Moment to that Renouned King and Nation their Countrey being as proper for it as any in the World so as for Climates which yield not Fruits Necessary they will yet however Fare much the better too since less VVines being spent in those Nations that used to take off the greatest Quantities viz. two or three Millions worth of Wines and Brandy's per Annum The French c. must then be necessiated to force a Trade by selling them much Cheaper than ever they would have done were it not for this Discovery Vpon the whole matter as Your most Excellent Majesties and Your renowned Lordships have by Your several Letters Patents Contracts and Resolutions given me Assurances of a Proportionate Reward and Encouragement If upon the Discovery the thing should prove Feazible and be Accepted or Suffered to be practised in Your several Dominions so Relying upon Your Royal and Honourable VVords than which nothing here below can be more Sacred to Your Justice Wisdom and Goodness I Humbly referr my self and these my well-intended Endeavours Remaining To Your Majesty my dread Soveraign a most Humble Loyal and Faithfully Devoted Subject And to you the other most Excellent Kings and Honourable Lords A most Humble And Ready Servant To my Power Richard Haines AN ADVERTISEMENT TO ALL LOYAL SUBJECTS IN HIS Majesties Kingdom of England AND Principality of Wales VVHereas our Soveraign Lord the King hath been Graciously Pleased by his Royal Letters Patent to give and grant unto Me and Partners the sole Use and Benefit of my Invention in the ensuing Treatise Discovered With all the Profits and Advantages that may can or shall be made thereof With prohibition to all others from doing or imitating the same within all His Majesties Dominions For and during the Term of Fourteen Years And forasmuch as such our Invention may be very desirable useful and beneficial to all or most

Broken to pieces put in 12 Quarts of Water and in 12 or 16 hours after press it and strain it put it into a Cask and let it stand until it begin to be Clear than Rack it off from the Gross-Lee and put to each Gallon a Pint of good Spirit and as much as best pleaseth your Pallets of Sugar or Sweets here-after mentioned stirr it well together for one quarter of an hour then stop it up close for about a quarter of a Year In like manner is made Wine-Royal of Goose-Berries Mul-Berries and Cherries but of all these that of Goose-Berries excels the rest and doth resemble Canary the most If it be Objected that the fore-going Calculations are partial because I have not cast up the Charge of Converting the Fruit into Cyder nor the Charge of Sweets or Sugars To this it is Answered That there is enough to be saved to defray all such Charges viz. By saving the Spirits that may be drawn out of the Apples after the Cyder is Pressed out of them as in the 15th Aphorism is herein after mentioned But that which is much more Considerable is that here may be made double the Quantity of Goose-Berry and Currant-Wine-Royal as has been Reckond upon ih the 4th and 5th Aphorisms in this respect viz. Because I there allow 20 Bushels of Currants and Goose-Berries to an Hogs-Head Whereas every Bushel will make six Gallons so that 20 Bushels will make 120 Gallons which is two Hogs-Head so that there may be at lest 4 Hogs-Heads on an Acre more than was Reckoned which may much more than pay for all the Charges of Sweets and of converting the Fruit. IX The last Year viz. 1682. good simple Cyder was frequently Sold in the west of England for 10● per Hogs-Head viz. an half-penny per Quart And this Year by Reason of scarcity of Fruit at 20 s. per Hogs-Head which is but one Penny per Quart X. When Cyder comes to be plenty there may be as much good Brandy made thereof as may Furnish those whole Nations to whom this is Addressed both for Land and Sea-Service which perhaps may save them several Hundred-Thousand Pounds per Annum For which use the most Stale and Sowr Cyder which is scarce fit to be Drank will make the greatest Quantity and best tasted Brandy being twice Distill'd Of this Cyder-Brandy I have kept some four Years and better than it was at first making and without doubt would keep four Years longer XI The best known Fruit that is only for Cyder is Red-Streak which is a kind of Wilding but for both Uses viz. for the Table and Cyder the best and Golden Pippins because they are both quick Growers great Bearers yield the greatest quantity of Liquors and the best in Quality And their very Husks after the Cyder is Pressed out especially the Golden-Pippin will yield more Spirit than any other I have yet found out Nor is it harder to Raise the best Sort of Fruit than the Worser Some other Wildings I have sound that are as good as the other but they are as yet unknown by Name but this is most certain good Wildings and good Crabbs are better for Cyder than the most delicious Summer or Winter Table-Fruit or sweet Apples Golden-Pippins Excepted yea the bitter sharp Crabb is much better than a bitter Sweet-Apple because the Juice of the first will afford twice as much Spirit as the latter Nor are the Spirits of the most pleasant Apples in the World better than those of crabbed Fruit for be they sweet or sowr neither of those tastes do arise with the Spirit but is left behind in the Earthy Flegmatick Part of the Cyder For Example Suppose you put 10 l. of Sugar into your Still amongst ten Gallons of sowr Cyder the Spirit will be never the sweeter Or suppose you fill your Still with new sweet Mead or Metheglin made of Honey Sugar or Molosso's you shall have neither Spirits nor Sweets come out of it but only fair Water but if you let it stand until it be well fermented and become sowr it will yield Spirit in abundance So likewise Cyder Perry or Juice of Crabbs Goose-Berries Currants Mul-Berries and Cherries will yield little or no Spirit untill it be passed the Fermentation or working and then the more sowr it is Provided it be not Vinegar the more Spirit it will afford nevertheless this observe Apples of bitter taste makes the Cyder bitter XII As to the time of putting your Spirits into your Cyder Observe that the Staler your Cyder is before the Spirits are added the more time they require to Incorporate and the sooner they are put in the sooner is in fit for Use But in case you put your Spirits into the Cyder before it hath fermented they will Evaporate and be cast out therefore be sure that your Cyder be Rackt off the Lee once twice or three times as you find occasion and being indifferent fine then put in your Spirits either with or without Sweets well Beaten together with a certain Quantity of Cyder and after 't is put into the Cask stirr it very Well together again and Bung it close up and about 2 or 3 Months after it will be sitt for Use But the longer it lieth the better especially if your Cyder be Stale er'e your SpiritS are put in for as this Cyder Drinks very unpleasing when first mixt together so no Wine can be more strong and pleasing than this when it hath Stood its due time to Incorporate and Meliorate and in the mean time to be kept close stope without drawing any out Unless the season of the year be warm then to prevent its fermentation let the Cask be open as you find occasion XIII The first and worst Infirmities that Common Cyder is subject to are of two sorts either being musty or fretting it self until the Spirits are spent and the Cyder become weak and unpleasant If Apples be gathered into the House whilst they are wet they will be Musty and so will the Cyder again if the Vessel wherein 't is made or that you put it into be Musty so will be you Cyder If none of these happen you need not fear any thing of that kind But if Cyder be Musty so will the Spirits that are drawn from it To Cure Cyder that is subject to Fret is somewhat difficult but the best way is to prevent the Causes Which are either the Gathering of the Fruit before they are Ripe or making the Cyder before the Apples have lain long enough for until Apples have lain in an Heap while they have sweat and are dry again they cannot be fit for the Press But if by Reason of warmth and mildness of the season or any other Accident the Cyder should fret and destroy it self the best way is to draw it off into another Vessel And do so once in six or ten days as you see cause always taking the Lee