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Cookery Through the Ages
Recipes from the Medieval to the Victorian ages.

 


Sage Wine

 

Shred a bushel of red sage very small, and having boiled six gallons of water a quarter of an hour, take it off the fire, and let it stand until it is about as warm as milk from the cow.

Put into it twenty-five pounds of Malaga raisins, picked and rubbed very clean, and then through in the bushel of sage which you have already cut very small.

Stir all the ingredients together, and let them stand for a week in a cool place.

Then strain your liquor through a sieve into a cask, work it with yeast for four days, then stop it up close and let it stand for a week more.

At the end of this time add to it two quarts of Malaga wine, and when the liquor looks clear bottle it.

Of all English wines this is deemed the most wholesome, as sage is the most wholesome herb that grows in a garden.

from

The Farmer's Wife
or, the Complete Country Housewife

London, c. 1780



Please also visit Old London Maps on the web as many of the maps
and views available there have plans and depictions of gardens from
the medieval period through to the late nineteenth century.

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