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tipples may be preserved floating in wine, as the fame Author (heweth. You muft put fome few apples into a barrel of wine that they may float up and down , and fo fhall yon alfo better the wine. Democrt- ttu would have them to be put into earthen pots ; but ApnUim would have them put into barrel?, and fo clofed up ; and thus, faith he, fhall you procure an admirable iweetnefs and pleafantnefs in the wine. Others would have them put into a new pot, and the pot to be drenched into a barrel of wine, fo that they may there fwim, and then the barrel to be made up clofe ; for this will be beft both for the wine and alfo for the apples. Likewife
Figgs may be long preferved in wine,
as Africanm fheweth. You muft make a new earthen por, not altogether round, but rather fomewhat fquare,having a good foand bottom ; then you muft gather your figs with their fprigs and ftalkes , and that before they be through ripe j then put them frefhinto yourveflel, and place them fo that they may lie from each other a pretty diftance ; and fo put them in a barrel full of wine, and there let them fwim • but the barrel muft be very well clofed up^hat the air get not in : and until the wine change and become fowrrTh, the figs will never change, but continue in the fame eftate as when they were put in. Palladia doth report the very fame experiment out of the very fame Author. Be ritim fheweth, That
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But it muft be fuch wine as is made of Mulberries ; and the vffells wherein they arc put, muft be made up very clofe. Likewife Pamphilim fheweth, Thac
Damojins m.ty be preferved in wine,
^ the put loto HogfreadR either of fweet wine, or elfe new wine, there to fwim op and down , and the Hogfheads well covered. Palladia alfo teacheih, That the
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Zfaiphftm may b e prefer ved in wine. fo that it (hall not have any fcrewls or wrinkles : for, if it be frefti gathered, and fup- nko1 wi:h drops of new wine, it will continue plumpe and full without any wrin- kles. Dtdymtti fheweth
How Grapes may be preserved in wine, You mull take a barrel that is half full of new wine , and therein hang up your grapes in fuch fort, as the clufters may not touch each other, nor any of them touch the wine: for by this means they will continue as found as they were upon the Vine. Some do prefcrve them in wine that is alayed with water. Grapes thus preferved in wine, have been in great requeft among the Ancients. Athen&tu makes mention of them out of Eubulm in Agglutinate : you muft, faith he, minifter unto him good ftore of grapes preferved in wine : And Pherecrates, among other things that are to be eaten, makes mention of grapes that were taken out of wine. Cute fheweth, That
Tears may be long preserved in fodden wine,
efpecially the Tarentine-pears , and the Mull-pears , and the Gourd-pears. Varro faith, That the pears called A nciana, and Serpentina ate to be preferved in fedden wine. Pliny faith, That the Tarentine-pears, and the Ancianaare lo preferved. PaQadim faith, That they may be preferved either in fodden wine or elfe in new winej but, faith he, The vcffels which they are put into , muft be filled up with that liquor wherein they are to be preferved ; which very fame precept he learned out ofDemo* critvu. Columella fheweth how to make this kind of fodden wine of that Iwcet wine which is called Muftum. PaUadttu (heweth alfo, how that kind of
Peaches, which hath the hardeft ftone, may be preferved long in fodden wine,
You muft fill up the Navel of the Peach (or that place wherein the ftalk was faftned) with a drop or two of fcalding pitch, fo that the wine may not get into the peach by that paflage; and then (hut up the vcrTel very clofe, that the air may not get in. Columella faith, That
Cervifes may be long preferved in new wine,
if you plat feme dry fennel above them, to keep them under, that ftill the liquor may overflow them: but the coverings or lids of theveffels muft be well pitched, and plaiftered over with morter , that the air may have no accefs unto them. Pliny faith, That Cervifes arc to be preferved in fodden wine , by the judgement of Cato, PaBaditu alfo faith, That Cervifes may be preferved long in fodden wine. Columella fheweth
That Crapes may be preferved in new wine.
You muft take a barrel that is well pitched , and put into it a certain quantity of new wine • then make a hurdle as it were , of good ftiff rods platted together, a lit- tle above the liquor : then place upon thofe hurdles , certain new earthen vef- fels, and therein fo difpofeyour grapes that they may" not touch each other; then cover your vefTels and flop them up, after that, make another fuch a loft of hurdles, and then another , and fo forward, as far as the greatnefs of the barrel will give you leave \ and in every one of thofe rooms place your grapes , as in the firft : then take the pitched cover of your barrel , and fmear it all over with good ftorc of new yvine, and when you have laid it upon the barrel, make it up clofe, and lay afhes upon it. Others make no more ado, but onely put their new wine into the barrel , and make certain hurdks over the wine , and there hang their gtapes out of the reach of the wine, and fo cover the barrel and flop it up. The fame Author likewife report- ed, That
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Damojins may be long kept in new Wine,
About barvelt time, you rauft gather Damofins not being throughly ripe,nor yet too green, (bu: they mutt be wildeDicnofins, fuch as are in colour like to the Onix- ftcae) andyoumultdry thsm in fomeftudowy place, the third day after they were gathered: then you mult mingle vineger with new Wine, or clfewi-h fodden wine, in equal portions, andfo put your Damofins into it. Buttheywill be pre- ferved the better, if you make your medley ot a certain quantity of vineger, blen- ded with twice fo much water. Or clfe you may take the purple- coloured Damo- fins, and lay them up in an earthen veffel well pitched, and then fill it either with new, or elfe with fodden wine, fo that the whole fruit may lie under the liquor* and then lay the covering upon the veffel, and plaifter it up. We may alfo pre* fcrve
Cucumbers in the Lees of Wtne^
as the Quintiles are of opinion. Youmuft,fay they, put your Cucumbers into the Lee:, of White- wine, before it be fowre , and fee that your veffel be top-full; for by this means your Cucumbers will laft irefh and good a great while. Didymm writes, that
Olives and Grapes may be kept together.
You muft take Grapes while they be freOi, and new, and whole, and lay them up in a veffel amongft Olives, fo placed, that every Olive may Hand betwixt two Grapes, and fo every Grape betwixt two Olives; and thus, the veffel being well clofed up, they will preferve each other. Columella faith, that
Corneile, or Hamberry m*y be kept in Lees ; and if it be well preferved fo, it will ferve to be ufed in the ftead of Olives. Ovid declares this in the eighth book of his Metamorphofis. Columella (hews that
Grapes may be preferved fre(h and green in the Lees of wine. You muft gather your grapes when they are of a reafonable ripenef?, and then lay them upon certain hurdles, fo that one clutter may not touch the other : then bring them within doors, and tuck away the dry, and withered, and rotten grapes with a pair of tuckers: and when they have lyen a while cooling out of the Sun, take three or four clutters according as the bignefs of your pot is, and put them into it amongft the Lees j and let the lid be made up faft with pitch, that the liquor may not break forth. Then you mud take a great many of Vine-ftalks, and fquecze or prefe them well, with their grapes upon them : then lay the (talks and husks in the bot- tom of a barrel, and therein place your pots that you have filled with Lees and Grapes, and let their mouths (land downward, and let them (tand in diftancc each from other, fo that you may ram in good (tore of Grape-kernels betwixt them: and when you have filled the room with Grape- (tones (tuffc in hard about the pots ; yon muft make a fecond room like the firft , and fill it up in the fame manner : like- wife you muft make a third room and fo forward, till the barrel ^be thoroughly fil- led even to the very brim, with pots, and Grape-ftones crammed infaft and thick about them ; then Itraightway cover the barrel and make it up dofe, and lay afhes upon it. But you mult look to ir, when you take forth any of the pots, thatyout take out a whole row together : for the Grape-ftones being (tamped in thick toge- ther muft not be ftirred ; if they be, they will become fowrifli very foon , and fo they will marrc the grapes. The Quintiles fay, that
Cucumbers may be preferved in vinegen and that very frefh and in their natural (trength, if you hang them up in a veffel that hath feme vineger in it, that they may not touch the vineger, and then clofe up the veffel faft, that the air may not pafs into it; for by this means you may have green and new Cucumbers in the Winter-time. So all other fruits may be prefer- ved
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yedln vfaeger: but becaule vineger doth mar the tafte of them, therefore we will not fpeak of fuch prefervings. But hereby wc have learned to prefcrve, time out; of mind, x
All things with 4 'fit lied wine :
for wine is of it feif fubjeft to putrefa&ion many wayes : but when it is often di- ftilled, that the quinteffence be extracted from it, this extraction is free from all putreta&ion whatfoever : wherefore all things that are drenched in this kind of li- quor, if the veflel be carefully clofed up, muft needs laft unputrified even for a whole age, nay for all eternity. At Rome, I law a fifh that was drenched in the water that had been drilled out of the Vine, and fhe was preierved five and twenty years, as frefh as while flie was alive : and at Florence, I faw the like of fourty years continuance: the veflel was made of glafs, and made up with the feal of Her me r. And I make noqueftion, buc that all things that arc fowced in this kind of liquor, will lift found and good for many ages. How many forts of things I have preierved by this one means, it were too long here to rchcarfc.
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That fruits may be very well prefervtd in falt-waters.
NExt after wine, falt-water is of fpecial ufe for preferving from putrefaction ; for fuch things as have been drenched therein, have lafted long very found and good. The Ancients faw that whatfoever was preferved in fait, was kept thereby from pucrifying : wherefore, that they might prelerve fruits from corrupti- on, they have ufed to drench them in falt-waters. Homer calls fait a divine thing, becaufe it hath a fpecial vertueagainft putrefaction, and by it, bodies are preferved to all eternity. Plato calls it the friend of God,becaufe no facrifices were welcome to him, without fait. Flntar\^ faith that the Antients were wont to call it a divine influence, becaufe the bodies of creatures that werefeafoned with fait from abo.e, were thereby acquitted from corruption. Salt binds, and dries, and knits together, and doth priviledge bodies from putrefaction, that in their own nature muft needs putrifie: as the TEgyptianscuftoroemanifeftly fheweth, who were wont to feafon their dead bodies with fait, as Herodotus writeth. But let us come to examples, Be- ritifu faith, that
Pomegranates are preferved in falt-wattrs.
You mud take fea- water, or elfe brine, and make it boil, and fo put \ o^r Pome- granates into it ; and afterward when they are thorough cold, dry them, Nttft* them npinthe Sun j and whenfoever you would ufe them, yr-nmnft fteep ttlerfffii frefh water two dayes before. Columella rehearfes the opinion of acerain ptftftt ginian touching this matter. Mago would have, faith he, that Sea-warer fhould be made very hot, and Pomegranates being tied together with thread or broom-twigs, to be drenched in it till they change their colour, and rhen to be taktn forth and dried in the Sun for three dayes, and afterward to be hanged up: and when you would ufe them, vou mult fteeptherrtin frefli and fweet water for the fpace of four and twenty hours before^ and fo they will be fit fop your ufe. 'Pliny alio reports out of the fame Anchor, that Pomegranates are firft to be hardened in hot Sea- water, and then to be dried in the Sun three dayes, and fo to be hung up, that the evening dew come not at them ; and when you would ufe them, to fteep them firft in frefh- water. Palladia writes the fame out of PUnj • and he Iheweth alio, that
Damopnsmay be preferved in fait waters. They muft be frefli gathered, and then drenched either in brine, or elfe in fea- waterlctldin°hot, and then taken forth, and dried eitherin the Sun, orelfeina warm Overt. Columella would have them drenched in new wine, fodden wine,and vincger; but he gives a fpecial charg« alio to caft fomefak amoogft them, left the
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worm or any other hurtfal vcrmine do grow in them. PaUiim likewife fheWeth, thai
Pears trill lajt long in falt-water i
firft the water is to be boiled, and when it begins to rife in furges, you muft skirri it ; and after ic is cold , put into it your Pears which you would preferve : then af- ter a while take them forth and put them up in a pitcher,and fo make up the mouth of it clofc, and by this means they Will be well preferved. Others let them lie one whole day and night in cold falt-water, and afterward fteep them two dayes in frefh-wat-r, and then drench them in new wine or in fodden wine, or in fweec wine to be prelerved. Others put them in a new earthen pitcher, rilled with new" wine, having a little fait in it, and fo cover the veffd clofe to preferve thcm0 Likewife
Cfttcdlars maybe preferved in falt-water i
They muft be gathered when they are but half ripe, with their ftalks upon them,and fteeped in fait- water for five dayes, and afterward more falt-watcfc poured in upon them) that they may fwim in it. Did/mm fhewcth alfo, that
You muft take fome fea-water,and make it hot j or, if you cannot come at that, take fome brine, and put wine amongft it, and therein drench your duffers of grapes^ and then lay them amonglt Barley ftraw- Some do boil the afhes of a Pig-tree, or of a Vine, in water, and drench their duffer.; therein ; and then take them out to be cooled, and fo lay them in Barley ftraw. The grape will laft a whole year toge- ther, if you gather them before they be thorough ripe, and drench them in hot wa- ter that hath Allome boiled in it, and then draw them forth again* The Autients were wont
To put (alt to Winey to make it lafi the longer ,
isCW#wf#ifheweth. They took new wine, and boiled it till the third -part was wafted away ; then they put it into veffels, there to preferve it for their ufe the year following: they put a pinte and a half of this liquor thus boiled, into nine gallons of new wine unboiled ; and after two dayes, when thefe liquors are incorporated together , they wax hot, and begin to fpurge ; then they caff into them half an ounce of fait beaten fraa.ll, and that made the wine laft till the next year* Theopbrafitu and Tliny write, that
7he fruits of thofe Palm-trees which grow in fait places^ art fittefi td he preferred ; as thofe which grow in Judaea, and Cyrenian Africk, becaufe thofe Countries efpeci- ally do afford fait and fan dy grounds: for fait is a great nourifherof thefe kinds of fruits, and they are preserved long, even by their own faltneffe ; fo that the faltef the places are where they grow, the better will the fruit be prefcrved. So likewife that kind of Pulfe which is called
deer, is preferved by its own faltnefs, without any other drefiing ; for the nature thereof is, to have a faltifh juice with- in it ; whereby it cometh to pafs that whereas all other Pulfe are fubjeft to corrup- tion, and have fome vcrmine or other breeding in them, onely this kind doth not engender any at all, becaufe of the bitter and fharp faltifh juice that is in it, as Tbeophrafinsmk*\h* Dtdymm likewife writeth,thac