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French Currant Wine

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France

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

Ingredients 8 ingredients

  1. one quart of juice
  2. one pound of sugar is put
  3. fifteen pounds of sugar
  4. Wine
  5. a pint more of water
  6. one gill of brandy
  7. twenty quarts of the liquid
  8. Currants
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Method

  1. To one quart of currant-juice addtwc quarts of water.
  2. As the squeezed currants still have some acid to them, put to them a pint more of water for every quart of juice which you have previously expressed;
  3. squeeze these currants again, and add the juice to the other liquid;
  4. let the latter stand in a tub over night ;
  5. then skim the surface, add fifteen pounds of sugar to twenty quarts of the liquid ;
  6. pour all into gallon jugs or casks, (if you are making a large quantity of wine,) leaving the cork out of the jugs, or the bung-hole open if you use casks, until all the sediment has risen to the top ;
  7. draw it off then into bottles.
  8. Some persons add one gill of brandy to each gallon of the wine when putting it into bottles.
  9. Like all other wine, it improves by age.
  10. Where sweeter wine is preferred, one pound of sugar is put to each quart of the liquid.
  11. Black currant wine is an excellent medicine for fevers, ulcerous sore throats, and putrid dysentery.
  12. “ Drink with moderation ;
  13. for inebriety neither keeps a secret nor performs a promise.” — Spanish Prov Gooseberry Wine is made like currant wine, but with one- third less sugar.
  14. In making this wine, use no berries that have fallen upon the ground, or have been shaded and grown sour.
  15. To one quart of juice, add two of water, and two pounds of sugar.
  16. At one of the feasts which Cleopatra gave to Antony at Alexandria, she dissolved pearls in her drink, in order to render her entertainment more costly.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Slotted spoon