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Wir Once you start living life on you own terms and doing things fo: yourself, it's hard to stop...and oni thing seems to lead to another. A good example of this chain reac tion is the increasing number o folks who have recently startec baking their own bread. Once the: find out how easy it is to make-anm how good it is-they often begin ti freeze and can their own veget ables. Sooner or later a good number o 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 say: you can produce up to 200 gallon: of the homemade brew-tax free-every year for your owr family's consumption. That's abou 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 frui that grows. You can even make wine out of honey. It's called meat 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 (no detergent), rinse it with baking soda in water and rinse again. Nov 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. Adc 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 t< foam up and get pretty sticky. After the workings quiet down a bit, you're ready to put a top or 'em...but NOT a solid top. What yoc want is something that will allov Vote for a COMMO EL James ( House of Re Richlanc Exrs ou ocr Eoures our oncSUP Politkica Advertisemer en Elect J.C. Ande~ iemakii r gas to escape from the jug, so it 7 won't explode, without letting air a which can turn the wine to vinegar get in. One way to do the job is to run f plastic or rubber tubing from the I otherwise sealed mouth of the jug, r thread the free end of the hose 1 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 f 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. t 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, I 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 i Man with N SENSE ECT . Anders presentatives I County "I am not obligated 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 General ? Lieutenant. U. S Navy Reserve, J. A. G. * Mason, Married to former Karen Schult: on d father of three * Presbyterian. Attended Public Schools - B . A. in Business A dmin. istration and J. D. in Low frorn University of South Carolina SLaw School Lecturer for public education, ore conservative, effec. 'OTING on NOV. 7 (S your democratic (E QUALIFICA TIONS. 'OR T will be appreciated. t Poid For by the committee E rnest J. Noauful. Jr. ig groi all-and three or four oranges chopped up the same way. Put a lid on the pot and boil the mixture for 30 minutes. Then let it cool to lukewarm and pour the sol ution into the crock. Add one and half or two packages of yeast. Then cover the container with cheesec loth and let the wine ferment for two or three weeks until the bubb ling stops. Filter your dandelion wine through a clean piece of cheesecloth and carefully pour it into some recy cled wine bottles and don't cap them too tightly. A small amount of gas may form in each one and you want to let it escape. The brew will be e " ThX i wting hi ready to drink immediately, but the pioneers traditionally held their dandelion wine for winter consump tion. They called it bottled summer sunshine and claimed it tasted bet ter with snow on the ground. Once you've propped your feet against the fireplace in December and popped the cork from a bottle of your own summer sunshine it's a ci'-ch you're going to be well hooked on home wine making and ready to graduate to a press, hyd rometer, bottle corker and other more sophisticated tools of the trade. Next thing you know, you'll even be building your own small lib rary of books on the subject. Mak Puts togeth neatly doub - wild little a and altogei polyester ga Or, pick pols navy or bla sizes 6 to 1 Davison's Collec Come In, 'y da vison's open 10:00a.m.-s 1527 main stroeet. lmba .C obby 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 office and request United States Treasury 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 Opera Festival will be delivered by Dr. David G. Phillips of the Music Dept. Sunday at 4:00 in Fraser Hall. Dr. Phillips attended the festival at Bayreuth, West Germany during August under a grant from the Ford Foundation Venture Fund. Of particular interest at Bayreuth are the productions of the entire cycle of the Ring of the Nibelungs. Designed by the composer's gran dson, these productions have had wide impact on operatic production throughout the world. The lecture will include slides as well as record ings of the productions in the Festi val House designed by the com poser. 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