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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

  1. White sugar
  2. Currants
  3. Rub
  4. one quart of brandy
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Method

  1. The currants should be gathered on a dry day, when quite ripe ;
  2. 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.
  3. To every gallon of this liquor stir in two pounds and a half of -white sugar, and put it into a vessel.
  4. To every six gallons add one quart of brandy, and let it stand six weeks : if fine, bottle it ;
  5. if not, draw it off clear into another vessel, or large bottles ;
  6. and, in a fortnight, bottle it up for use.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Mortar and pestle
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve