Title:  The Cyder-Maker’s Instructor, Sweet-Maker’s Assistant, and Victualler’s and Housekeeper’s Director In Three Parts

Author:  Thomas Chapman

Release Date:  March 18, 2005 [EBook #15407]

Language:  English

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The

Cyder-Maker’s instructor,

Sweet-Maker’s Assistant,

And Victualler’s and Housekeeper’s

Director.

In three parts.

* * * * *

PART I.

Directs the grower to make his cyder in the manner foreign wines are made; to preserve its body and flavour; to lay on a colour, and to cure all its disorders, whether bad flavour’d, prick’d, oily, or ropy.

PART II.

Instructs the trader or housekeeper to make raisin-wines, at a small Expence, little (if any thing) inferior to foreign wines in strength or flavour; to cure their disorders; to lay on them new bodies, colour, &c.

PART III.

Directs the brewer to fine his beer and ale in a short time, and to cure them if prick’d or ropy.

To which is added, A Method to make yest to ferment beer, as well as common yest, when that is not to be had.

All actually deduced from the author’s experience.

By Thomas Chapman, Wine-Cooper.

London, Printed:  Boston, Re-printed and Sold by Green & Russell, in
Queen-Street, MDCCLXII.

[Price One Shilling.]

THE PREFACE.

It may be thought necessary, in compliance with custom, that I should say something by way of preface.  If the reader would be informed what my reasons were for appearing in print, I shall candidly acknowledge, that the great prospect of a considerable advantage to myself was indeed the strongest persuasive; but I can with equal truth affirm, that it affords me no small pleasure to think I am doing my country at the same time a very great piece of service; and doubt not but that, as many will soon experience it, my labour will be thankfully received and acknowledged.

Discoveries and Improvements ought not to be concealed; the public good calls loudly for them; but then, in return for the great advantage the public receives from them, the author of any such discovery may with the greatest justice claim an adequate reward.

PREFACE