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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 3 ingredients

  1. a gallon of water
  2. Sugar
  3. Lump of 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 damsons on a dry day, weigh them, and then bruise them ;
  2. put them into a steen that has a cock in it, and to every eight pounds of fruit put a gallon of water.
  3. Boil the water, skim it, and put it scalding hot to the fruit.
  4. Let it stand two days, then 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.
  5. Keep it twelve months in the vessel, and then bottle it, putting a lump of sugar into every bottle.
  6. 7"he small damson is the best for this purpose.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Slotted spoon