A treatise on the culture of the apple and pear, and on the manufacture of cider and perry. [With a postscript concerning tithes] / [T.A. Knight].

  • Knight, T. A. (Thomas Andrew), 1759-1838.
Date:
1797
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the culture of the apple and pear, and on the manufacture of cider and perry. [With a postscript concerning tithes] / [T.A. Knight]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    than an ounce and half, or two ounces of ifinglafs are, I believe, generally put into a calk, of a hun- dred and ten gallons at once j but when it’s mode of aftion is conli- dercd, I can fee no objection to a larger quantity. This fubftance is moft readily dilFufed in liquors by boiling; but by this it is diflblved, and converted into glue ; and it’s organization, on which alone it’s powers of fining depend, is totally deftroyed. The application of it is fometimes neceffary in the manu- fafture of cider; but as it is rarely wanting in that liquor, I deferred inferting the direAions for ufing it, ’till 1 came to fpeak of perry, which IS