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Damson 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.
  • Storage. The keeping times and places here are from before refrigeration. Follow current storage guidance.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. one gallon of water
  2. Sugar

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. Gather the fruit dry, weigh them, and bruise them with your hands : put them into an earthen pot with a fauset, having a wad of straw before the fauset ;
  2. and to every eight pounds of fruit add one gallon of water.
  3. Boil the water ;
  4. then pour it upon your truit scalding hot, and let it stand two days ;
  5. afterwards draw it off, and put it into a clean cask, and to every gallon of liquor add two pounds and a half of sugar : let the cask be full, and the longer it stands the better.
  6. It will keep very well a year in the cask ;
  7. afterwards bottle it off.
  8. The small damson is the best.
  9. If you put a small lump of loaf-sugar into every bottle it will be much improved.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan