Damson Wine
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United Kingdom
Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 4 ingredients
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
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- after you have gathered your damsons, which must be on a dry day, weigh them and then bruise them.
- Put them into a stein that has a cock in it, and to every eight pounds of fruit put a gallon of water.
- Boil the water, skim it, and pour it scalding hot on your fruit.-i- When it has stood two days draw it off, and put it into a vessel, and to every gallon of liquor put two pounds and a half of fine sugar.
- Fill up the vessel and stop it close, and the longer it stands the better.
- When you draw it off, put a lump of sugar into every bottle.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Slotted spoon