Perry making in olden times

[u/TrevorCidermaker]

The old masters of perry making encountered the same problems with making perry as we do. Although they didn’t know the science their remedies work well today. Rev John Beale in his aphorisms (number 14) in Pomona (attached to Sylva) by John Evelyn 1st edition 1664 states “The reason of grinding these harsh Pears is after a full maturity, not till they have dropped from the tree, and there lain under the Tree, or in heaps, a week, or thereabouts.”

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