Lemon Wine

Ingredients

• 4-1/2 gallon water
• the pulp of 50 lemons
• the rind of 25
• 16 lb loaf sugar
• 1/2 oz isinglass
• 1 bottle brandy

Instructions

1. Peel and slice the lemons, but use only the rind of 25 of them, and put them into the cold water.
2. Let it stand 8 or 9 days, squeezing the lemons well every day;
3. then strain the water off and put it into a cask with the sugar.
4. Let it work some time, and when it has ceased working, put in the isinglass.
5. Stop the cask down; in about six months put in the brandy and bottle the wine off.