"Ant" > wrote:

> I have a book on home preserving which says in the event that if you don't
> have a "jelly bag" try improvising with a very clean piece of fine
material
> ( cotton) laid over a large nylon (not metal) sieve.

Isn't Mr. Shepherd trying to make a pear wine, not jelly? His stated purpose
for the bag is to hold "pear chunks and chopped golden raisins", presumably
to extact their flavour into the must. If so, he would be better off with a
course material, or no bag at all, to extract the maxium amount of flavour,
tannins, and colour. A fine filter would be counter productive.