To Make Turnip Wine

Pare and slice a number of turnips, put them into a cider press, and press out all the juice. To every gallon of the juice, add three pounds of lump sugar; have a vessel ready large enough to hold the juice, and put half a pint of brandy to every gallon. Pour in the juice and lay something over the bung for a week, to see if it works; if it does, do not bung it down till it has done working; then stop it close for three months, and draw it off into another vessel. When it is fine, bottle it off.

This is an excellent wine for gouty habits, and is much recommended in such cases in lieu of any other wine.

Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts, Colin Mackenzie