To prevent Wine from turning.
Put a pound of butter melted in fair water into your cask, pretty warm, and stop it close.
To take away the ill Scent of Wine.
Bake a longer roller of dough, stuck well with cloves; let it thoroughly bake, and hang it in your cask, and it will remove the ill scent from the wine, by gathering it to itself.
To remedy a bitter or sour Scent in Wine.
Take half a peck of barley, and boil it in two quarts of water, till one half of the water be wasted; strain it, let it settle well, and pour it into the wine cask, stirring it without touching the lees.
To soften green Wine.
Put in a little vinegar, wherein litherage had been well steeped, and boiled some honey to draw out the wax; strain it through a cloth, and put a quart of it into a tierce, which will improve it, in summer especially. Some, when they perceive the wine turning, put in a stone of unslacked lime; this will make it very good.
To keep Wine from souring.
Boil a gallon of wine, with some beaten oyster shells and crabs' claws calcined; strain out the liquid part, and when it is cool put it into green wine, and it will give it a pleasant lively taste.
To sweeten Wine.
Fill it upon the lees, put a handful of the flowers of clary, and infuse in it; add a pound
