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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 3 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. Water
  3. four gallons of currants
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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.

Method

  1. Take four gallons of currants, not too ripe, and strip them I into an earthen steen with a cover to it ;
  2. then take two gallons and a half of water, and five pounds and a half of sugar ;
  3. Itboil the sugar and water together, and skim it well;
  4. then : ;pour it boiling on the currants, and let it stand forty-eight llhours ;
  5. afterwards strain it through a flannel bag into the vessel !
  6. again, and let it stand a fortnight to settle ;
  7. then bottle it off.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Slotted spoon
  • Sieve