Sloe Wine

To 4 gallons of fruit pour 4 gallons of water. Let the liquor stand in a tub for 4 or 5 days stirring it well with the hand every day. Then strain and to every gallon of liquor add 4 lbs of lump sugar. When quite dissolved put the whole into a cask for a considerable time, should be given to and in the cask and will become a little inferior to good *****. Twelve months is the earliest time given before bottling.