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Blackberry Wine

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Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Berries
  2. one-half gallon of water
  3. two and one-half pounds of sugar
  4. one gallon of fruit
  5. Wine

Method

  1. Bruise the berries well with the hands.
  2. To one gallon of fruit, add one-half gallon of water, and let stand overnight.
  3. Strain and measure, and to each gallon of juice add two and one-half pounds of sugar.
  4. Put in cask and let ferment.
  5. Tack thin muslin over top, and when fermentation stops, pour into jugs or kegs.
  6. Wine keeps best in kegs.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Sieve
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Old-time recipes for home made wines, cordials and liqueurs from fruits, flowers, vegetables, and shrubs, by Wright, Helen S. (Helen Saunders) (1909). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #75708 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75708). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.