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Elderberry Wine

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United States

Known as an American 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. Water
  2. 4 pounds white sugar
  3. Berries

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. Strip berries from large stems, and squeeze all the juice possible from berries.
  2. Take an equal amount of boiling water and pour on the pressed fruit.
  3. Let stand 2 hours.
  4. Squeeze again, and add this juice to the clear juice first obtained.
  5. Add 4 pounds white sugar to each gallon of juice.
  6. Let stand 4 weeks, then bottle it.
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Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
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Credit

From Our cook book (1910), printed page 111, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ourcookbookmolly00daug

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.