The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1879-07-03
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usually called by that name. We have
many kinds Of wine, named after the
different fruits from which il is made,
as current wine, cherry wine, black
berry wine and gooseberry wine. The
most Of the wine Of commerce is made
Of grapes, 50 il happens that when we
say, simply, wine. we are supposed to
mean that wine which is made OF
grapes.
/ Until quite recently, we have made
very little wine in this country In
England where the habits OF our English
tongue were formed, they seldom make
any wine at all. What they aud we
have imported has been fermented
wine, from wine making countries.
| The sweet, new wine which is the fresh
Juice OF the grape, we never get, be.
cause it could not be carried far, while
il was sweet, any more than we could
send cider from this county to England
aud have it sweet when it arrived
there. SO, in this country aud in Eng
land, the wine which we have known
has always been fermented wine. Still,
you see il would be very absurd to
suppose that there was no such thing
as sweet wine, just because we had
not seen it, 0nr common sense would
/ teach us that it must have been sweet
when it was first pressed out of the
grapes
II we should visit wine.raising coun-
tries, we would sec that this was true.
The workers 10 the vineyards like the
sweet wine and have all they wish to
drink. and they use it just as our cider
makers like and use the new cider /;
but then, it does not always satisfy
them, because, like our cider-topers,
they have often learned to like some
thing stronger
In Syria, which is the native country
of the best grapes, they are as Of much
use to the inhabitants as apples are TO
US, If not more, and they use them in
very similar ways, In the first place,
they eat a great many of them fresh,
even more, suppose, than we eat OF
apples. The grapes hang on the vines
two or three months after they begin
to ripen, and then the clusters are
picked off aud hung up in cool rooms
to be kept as much longer as possible,
Just as we do again with apples only,
as il is warmer there than here, they
cannot keep them SO long. Then they
are dried in vast quantities, aud II any
one would look into our New England
kitchens in the fall, they would say
that we, too, dry vast quantities oil
apples, There is this difference TO be
sure, that we always cook our dried
apples before eating them, while
grapes are 30 we'll cooked 10 the sun
to begin with. that they do not Away =
require more cooking | need not ask
the boy with the sweet tooth If be ever
saw any of these dried grapes, though
be may not know that when they get
here we call them raisins. There is
another way 10 which they use grapes
as we do apples; they boil the juice
down thick. exactly like our boiled
cider The boiled cider is used TO quite
an extent 10 cooking, and il is as
harmless as when tue apples are cook
ed, juice aud all. 1t is true we would
not 20 to the cider maker for it. As
commonly made, cider is filthy stuff
and moreover cider makers are liquor
dealers and we would not wish TO pat
ronizo them But every house-keeper
can find some way OF stewing out Of
the fresh apples all the juice she wants
10 cooking. II is not difficult task
and she will feel lar better satisfied
with il than with the wormy, rotten
apple juice that the cider makers would
furnish. You will observe that we
have a slightly different name for il.
( We call il boiled cider. so the syri
ans have special name for their boiled
grape juice they call il dibbs. But
shen they mix il with water aud make
drink OF il, az they often do, they
call this drink wine This was the
character Of much OF the wine Of The
. Old and New Testaments. 50 you see
plainly how it could happen that wine
could sometimes be called good. for
this drink was both refreshing and nu-
tfilious, better even than lemonade
neither have any alcohol IN them be-
Cause neither OF them has stood 10 fer.
meni, and IL Is tie fermeni alton that
makes The alcohol Never forget that.
But we cannot always tell BY The
words 10 the Bible, aud still less 10 our
translation Of the Bible, which kind o
wiae was used, whether il was the new
sine, the dibhs MIXED with water, Or
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