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Beetroot Wine

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Canada

Known as a Canadian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. three pounds sugar
  2. one gallon water
  3. Cayenne pepper
  4. one yeast
  5. Beets

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Scrape and slice thinly five medium beets;
  2. boil till tender in one gallon water;
  3. strain and make liquid up to gallon with boiling water;
  4. ‘add three pounds sugar, pinch cayenne pepper;
  5. boil ten minutes;
  6. strain;
  7. cool to lukewarm;
  8. add one yeast eake.
  9. Keep in warm place ten days to ferment.
  10. Strain and bottle.
  11. Ready in a few days, better kept longer.
  12. Ls.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Sieve
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Credit

From The Military Chapter cook book (1925), printed page 85, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/P004996

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.