Mix one ounce of calcined gypsum, in powder, and two pounds of honey,
in one quart of brandy; pour the mixture into the wine, and stir it
so as not to disturb the lees; fill up the cask, and the following
day bung it up:—rack this wine as soon as fine.
Or, mix half an ounce of the salt of tartar, half an ounce of
calcined gypsum, in powder, with a pint of the wine; pour it into
the cask, and put an ounce of cinnamon in the stick; stir the wine
without disturbing the lees, fill up the cask, and the day following
bung it up.
Or, boil 3 ounces of rice; when cold put it into a gauze-bag, and
immerge it into the wine; put into the wine also a few sticks of
cinnamon, and bung up the cask. In about a month after, take the rice
out.