Or, take 1½ oz. of gum-arabic, in fine powder, and
1 oz. of chalk, in powder.
Mix those up with a pint more of wine, pour the mixture into the
cask, roll it ten minutes, and then fill it up. Bung it up the next
day, and rack off the wine as soon as fine.
Or, take the yolk and white of an egg,
½ oz. of chalk, in powder, and
½ oz. of burnt alum, in powder.
Beat those up in a mortar with a pint of spring water, and pour the
mixture into the wine, roll the cask; then fill it up, and bung it
up the next day.—Rack off the wine as soon as fine.