Let your fruit be full 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 & one pound of sugar put your water to your currants &
with your hands squeeze them through a hair Sive then put your Sugar
to your juice and when it is well mingled together and the Sugar is
dissolved then put it into a very dry and sweet vessel fill your vessel
quite full and let it worke a week and then stop it up and let it not
be tap’d under 10 weeks time and then draw it off as you drink it or
bottle it which you please.