The compleat housewife: or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of several hundred of the most approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month in the year. : To which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, &c. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such publick-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbors.
Smith, E. (Eliza), d. ca. 1732.
To recover Wine that is turn'd sharp.
RACK off your Wine into another Vessel, and to ten Gallons put the following Powder; take Oyster|shells, scrape and wash off the brown dirty Out side of the Shell, then dry them in an Oven till they will pow|der, a Pound of this Powder to every nine or ten Gallons of your Wine; stir it well together, and stop it up, and let it st•nd to settle two or three Days, or till 'tis fine; as soon as 'tis fine bottle it off, and cork it well.
