Ingredients:
6 gallons water
15 lb sugar
6 egg whites
50 oranges
1 quart brandy - optional
Preparation:
- Put sugar into the water on the fire, the whites of six eggs, well beaten, and whisk them into the water. When it is quite cold skim it very well whilst any skim rises. Let it boil for 30 minutes.
- Pare oranges very thin, put them into your tub. Pour the water boiling hot upon your oranges. when it is bloodwarm put on the yeast, then put in your juice, let it work two days, and so tun it into your barrel.
- At six weeks or two months old bottle it. You may put to it in the barrel a quart of brandy.
