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Elder Wine

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Brandy
  2. four gallons of water
  3. Berries

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • 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. Strip a quantity of elder berries, bake them in an oven, and run the juice through a fieve •, to one gallon of juice add four gallons of water, and eighteen pounds of lump fugar ;
  2. boil it altogether, lkim it well, and when it is near cold, add to it a little yeaft, worK it for two days, then tun it, and add three pints of brandy •, let it ferment for eight days, ftop it clofe down, keep it twelve months in a calk, then Settle it.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan