Artificial MOLOSSES. There has been found a method of making molosses from apples without the addition of sugar. The apple that succeeds best in this operation is a summer sweetening of a middle size, plea-
fant to the taste, and so full of juice that seven bushels will yield a barrel of cyder.
The manner of making it is this: the apples are to be ground and pressed, then the juice is to be boiled in a large copper, till three quarters of it be evaporated: this will be done with a moderate fire in about six hours, with the quantity of juice above mentioned; by this time it will be of the consistence and taste as well as of the colour of molosses.
This new molosses serves all the purposes of the common kind, and is of great use in preserving cyder. Two quarts of it put into a barrel of racked cyder, will preserve it, and give it an agreeable colour.
The invention of this kind of molosses was owing to Mr Chandler of Woodstock in New England, who living at a distance from the sea, and where the common molosses was very dear and scarce, provided this for the supply of his own family, and introduced the practice among people of the neighbourhood. It is to be observed, that this sort of apple, the sweetening, is of great use in making cyder; one of the very best kinds we know being made of it. The people in New England also feed their hogs with the fallings of their orchards of these apples; and the consequence of this is, that their pork is the finest in the world.