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Show Concerning Cider. Concerning Cider: fruit, in which the juice and the pulp femfriendly to diffolye together onthe tongues end. thick whey-colour, and not good: Only fuch as rifeth there (by tne diligenee or fome Art of the Inhabitants) is bright and clear, andfolive ly, that they are apt to challenge the beft. 6. Some Cider mixeth kindly with Water in the Cider-will,and 10. The Liquor of beft Cider-fruit in the Applesiin Belt feafon of ripenefs, ismore brisk and {mart than that which'proves dulle: Cider: And generally the fierceft Pears, anda kind oftanér Crzh f, will hold out a good fmall Wixe, and \efsinflaming, all the follow- ing Summer. Some Cider (as of Long-hope,a kind of four Wood- (and fuch was the Red-ftrake.called in my memory) makes the Land Country ofHerefordbire) will not bear any mixture of Water, but foon decay, and turn more harfhand four: And thus we noted more winy Cider, 11. Palladius denieth Perryto bear the heat of Shimmer; bit there in France, fome courle Wines ftucklike paint in the Glafs, unwilling to incorporate with the Water: Vind’ Aye, and other delicate Wines, did fpread themfelves more freely, as gold is more duéfile is a Pear in Bosbury,and that Neighbourhood; the Liquor richer the fecond yearthanthefirft, andfo“which yields by my experience very much amended thethird year: They talk'tuch high+ er; but that's beyond my account. 12. As Cider isfor fome time a fluggard, fo by like care it may than bafer metals. 7- Somewould, fora fit, extol the Cider of Pearmains, fome of Pepins 5 (and of Pepins I have found a congenial Liquor, \efs afflicting/p/enetick perfons, as in mine own experience I conceived: ) And Sir Henry Linges once extolled the Cider of Elects (as richly bedewing the Glafs like the beft Canaries; ) and full Hogfheads of the Stocking- Apple have beentried amongft us, but difappojnting our expectation, though perhapsbyevil ordering : Yet Mr. Grie- beretained to keep the Afemorials of many Conf#ls3\ and thefe {imoaky bottles are the appy Wine. M y Lord Scudamore feldomé fails of three or four years5 and he is nobly liberal té‘offer the Trial. 13. As red Apples, fo red Pears (and among{t them the red Horf-pear next to the Bosbury ) have held out bet for the fto. ten highly boafted a Mixture of Stocking- Apples and May-Pears, tried (as take it) by himfelf: After many years trial of thofeand mach and durance :,But Pears dolefg gratifie the ftomach than Apples. 14. The feafon of grinding thefe harfo' Pears is after'a full’matiirity, not till they have dropt from the Tree, and there lain under the Tree, orin heaps,a week, or thereabouts, manyother kinds, the Red-ftrake carried the common fame, and from moft of thofe reduced admirers: The Gennet-Moyl Cider was indeed more acceptable totender Palatss and it will require Cuftom and Judement to underftand the pseferrency of the Red- JStrake, whofe mordicant fweetnefs moft agreeably gives the farewel, endearing the rellifh to all flagrant Palats; which both obliges, whets, and fharpens the ftomach with its mafculine and wing vigour; and many thoufands extol it for exceeding the ordinary French-Wine: But grant it fhould not be fo {trong as Wines let me ask how manyfober perfons abroad addict themfelves to Wine ? Then compare this with diluted Wine, as ufuallyfor meer temperate men , and thenletthe trial be made, whether the PepinCider or Red-firake will retain the winy vigour in greater propor- tion of Water. Addtothis, That they commonly mingle Water in the Prefs with Apples (a good quantity) whiles theygrinde the Apple; and the Water thus mixed, at that time, does {fo pleafingly incorporate in the grinding, fermentation, and maturity of Veffeling, that ’tisquite another and far more pleafant thing thanif fo much or half fo much Water were mingled in the Cup at the drinking time; as Salt on the Trencher will not give Beef, Pork, or Neats-Tongue, half that fame rellifh which duly powder'd and time- lyfeafon’d, 8. Idid once prefer the Gennet-moyl Cider, but Ladies on myfide, as gentler for their fugarypalats,had only the and for one ortwofober draughts; but I faw caufe to recant, and to confefs the Red-S#rake to warm and whet the Stomach, either for meat or moredrink, g. The right Cider-fruit is far more fucculent , and the Liquor more eafily divides fromthe pulpe of the Apple, thanin beft Table- fruit, 15. And fo of CidesApples, as of Grapes, they require fall wa* turity, whichis beft knownbytheir natural fragrancy’, and thei alfo, asripe Grapes require a few mellowing days, fo doall Apples, as about a weekor little more, fo they be not bruifed; which foon urns torottennefs 5 and better found from the Tree than rotten from the heap; though yet the juice of Apples and Pears Cyea, of Cherrys or Grapes.) is not altogether deftroy’d, or quiteput: ified, as foon asthe Pulp feems to be corrupted 5 neither haply needs there fuch curiofity, tocull and pick them fo accurately, as fome prefcribe, though doubtlefsthe cleaner,andlefs contaminated ,the better. 16. That due maurity, and fome reft on the heap, does make the Liquor tafte rather of Apples than winy, bath no more truth, Gf the Cider be kept to fitage) than that veryold Cheefe doth tafte of a Pojfet. 7. The harfher the wild-fruit is, the Jonger heaps; for of the { Ver juice e; beingon heap it Rhenifh-wine, jfud mt enly ground, Ihave tafte ill near Chriftmeas,all good-fellows called 18. Lhe Grinding is f{omewhat confiderable, rather too much thantoo |} 2it in Somerjet{hire which grinds half Ly a Hog fheac grit, and{o much the’better groundfor the fre- ions nm quent roliing : Ne Soon after grinding it {hould bepreg, and immediately be! Citmay ferment before the /pirits be diffi- c ig time the Vent-hole fhould not’ 1 ve |