Make a good lemon ice, and mix with it a gill of brandy, and half a gill of rum, or arrack.
This ice is only fit for glasses.
Pear Ice.
Take four good mellow pears: rasp them, then mix it with the juice of four lemons, half a pint of clarified sugar, and a quarter of a pint of water; strain it through a sieve for use.
PART VIII.
CORDIALS, AND MADE WINES.
To make Raisin Alder Wine.
Take four gallons of boiling water: to every gallon, add five pounds of Malaga raisins cut small; pour the water boiling hot upon them, and let it stand nine days, stirring it twice a day: boil your alder-berries, as you do currants for jelly, and strain it; then add to every gallon of liquor, one pint of alderberry juice, and stir it all together with half a pint of yeast; let it work well, and remain in the cask for two or three months; then bottle it off.