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Win Once you start living life on your own terms and doing things for yourself, it's hard to stop...and one thing seems to lead to another. A good example of this chain reac tion is the increasing number of folks who have recently started baking their own bread. Once they find out how easy it is to make-and how good it is-they often begin to freeze and can their own veget ables. Sooner or later a good number of this new generation of do it-yourselfers discovers the fine old-time art of wine making. Making wine at home is com pletely legal and Uncle Sam says you can produce up to 200 gallons of the homemade brew-tax free-every year for your own family's consumption. That's about 1,000 bottles so it should be suf ficient for the average family! There are thousands of wine recipes and you'll find you can make your own out of grapes, pears, peaches, plums, blackberries, cher ries, strawberries...almost any fruit that grows. You can even make wine out of honey. It's called mead and supposedly was the drink of the Greek and Roman gods. Get a gallon jug, preferably glass, but plastic will do. Clean it out good, wash the container with soap (not detergent), rinse it with baking soda in water and rinse again. Now you're ready for the actual wine making. Put a pint and a half to two pints of honey in the jug, fill the container with warm water and shake. Add a pack or cake of yeast-the same stuff you use for bread-and leave the jug uncapped and sitting in a sink overnight. Expect the brew to foam up and get pretty sticky. After the workings quiet down a bit, you're ready to put a top on 'em...but NOT a solid top. What you want is something that will allow Vote for a COMMO1 ELE James C House of Rep Richland Express your concern tax reform and a moi tive government by V( for JAMES C. ANDER! nominee. COM PARI Your VOTE and SUPPC Political Advertisement to Elect J.C. Anders. E emakir gas to escape from the jug, so it won't explode, without letting air which can turn the wine to vinegar get in. One way to do the job is to run plastic or rubber tubing from the otherwise sealed mouth of the jug, thread the free end of the hose through a hole in a cork and let the tubing hang in a glass or bowl of water. Or you can make a loop in the hose, pour in a little water and trap it in the-loop to act as a seal. Now put the container of brew away about two weeks until it's finished doing its thing. The wine is ready to bottle when bubbles stop coming to its top. Old wine bottles sealed with corks are best and the mead will be ready to drink in about a month. You can use this same rather crude beginner's recipe with almost any fruit if you extract the juice and add some sugar. Most natural fruit juice, you'll soon discover, will start to ferment without the yeast and will be the better for it. Fruit wines and mead, of course, are OK...but for real down-home, traditional, frontier wine in this country, there's only one place to start and that's with dandelion wine. The flavoring is- free, it's easy to make and it's supposed to be good for you. Here's the formula for making one gallon. Early in the morning when dew is on the flowers, pick one gallon of perfect, open dandelion blos soms. Put the flowers in a two gallon or larger open crock and pour boiling water over them. Cover the container with cheesecloth and let it sit at room temperature for three days. Then squeeze all the juice out of the flowers, throw them away and save the liquid. Put this liquid into a big enameled pot and add three pounds of brown sugar, three or four lemons -chopped up juice, skin, seeds and Man with SENSE CT Anders resentatives County to any person or special interest group and will ac count only to the voters of this coun ty if elected" * Former Assistant State Attorney Generol * Lieutenant, U. 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The brew will 1 Q O 64 wing hc .s ready to drink immediately, but the pioneers traditionally held their e dandelion wine for winter consump t tion. They called it bottled summer 1- sunshine and claimed it tasted bet d ter with snow on the ground. n Once you've propped your feet c- against the fireplace in December )r and popped the cork from a bottle b- of your own summer sunshine it's a ci".ch you're going to be well e hooked on home wine making and h ready to graduate to a press, hyd y- rometer, bottle corker and other rn more sophisticated tools of the is trade. Next thing you know, you'll it even be building your own small lib re rary of books on the subject. Mak I I )a F a C t Puts together neatly double wild little ws and altogeth polyester gab Or, pick poisei navy or blaci sizes 6 to 14. Davison's Collecto Come In, wr davison's open 10:00 a.nm.-shc --1127 main street. colu.mbi,. .... )bby ing wine at home is that fascinat ing...even if you never drink a drop of it yourself! For more information on the sub ject, go down to your friendly, neighborhood, federal income tax Dffice and request United States Freasury Department Internal Revenue Form 1541, entitled Tax Free Wine For Family Use. You'll find all the legal details in that one Little bulletin. Wagner productions explored A lecture on the Richard Wagner )pera Festival will be delivered by )r. David G. Phillips of the Music )ept. Sunday at 4:00 in Fraser Hall. t Dr. Phillips attended the festival it Bayreuth, West Germany during Lugust under a grant from the Ford roundation Venture Fund. Of particular interest at Bayreuth ire the productions of the entire :ycle of the Ring of the Nibelungs. Designed by the composer's gran ison, these productions have had vide impact on operatic production hroughout the world. The lecture vill include slides as well as record ngs of the productions in the Festi al House designed by the com oser. 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