Currant Wine
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United Kingdom
Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
- Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.
Ingredients 4 ingredients
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- Gather the currants on a fine dry day, when fully ripe;
- strip them, put them into a large pan, bruise them with a wooden pestle, and let them stand twenty-four hours to ferment : then rub it through a hair sieve, but do not let the hand touch the liquor.
- To every gallon of this liquor stir in two pounds and a half of white sugar, and putit into a vessel.
- To every six gallons* add a quart of brandy, and let it stand six weeks.
- If fine, bottle it;
- if not, draw it off clear into another vessel or large bottles ;
- and, in a fortnight, bottle it up for use.
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Cookware for this recipe
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Mortar and pestle
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Wooden spoon
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Sieve