Let your fruit be very ripe and gather’d on a dry day and to every
3 pound of currants good weight with their stalks and stems on take
one quart of water and one pound of sugar then put your water to your
fruit and with your hand squeeze them through a hair sive then put your
sugar to your juice & when it is well mingled together and the sugar
dissolved then put it into a dry Sweet vessel fill your vessel quite
full & let it worke a week & then stop it up and not tap it under 10
weeks then draw it out of the vessel as you drink or bottle it which
you please.