TO MAKE CHERRY BRANDY.
Have some good morella cherries. Get a small cask, one holding about five quarts; fill it nearly with cherries; add two quarts of water; the water should be hot; let it stand full three hours, then add one quart of brandy; let it stand four days; add two quarts more of water, and one of brandy; let it stand two more days, then drain it off: wash out the cask well. Put your juice on the fire with sugar, (say half a pound of sugar to two quarts of the juice) let it boil fifteen minutes; skim it; take it off, and let it get perfectly cold, then put it in the cask, and set it away. If it is too strong of the brandy, add water.