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French Cherry Wine

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France

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Currants
  2. two pounds of sugar
  3. fifteen pounds of cherries
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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. Bruise, and extract the juice after heating to boiling heat, fifteen pounds of cherries, and two of red currants ;
  2. add two-thirds of the kernels to each gallon of juice, with two pounds of sugar ;
  3. cover the bung with cloth while fermenting.
  4. The cask should be as full of the mixture as possible without running over in fermenting.
  5. Bottle in two months if convenient ;
  6. if not, close the bung, and leave the barrel undisturbed.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan