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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 15 ingredients

  1. a tumbler of water
  2. three pints of elder-berry juice
  3. three pounds of sugar
  4. Nutmeg
  5. Cloves
  6. Mace
  7. Ginger
  8. Wine
  9. Lemonade
  10. Yeast
  11. Raisins
  12. Cinnamon
  13. Lemons
  14. Rub
  15. Milk
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Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Raisin High in potassium · High in copper · Source of iron

    High in potassium · 825 mg per 100 g, 41% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Potassium contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
    • Potassium contributes to normal muscle function.
    • Potassium contributes to the maintenance of normal blood pressure.

    Potassium is a mineral found in many foods. Your body needs potassium for almost everything it does, including proper kidney and heart function, muscle contraction, and nerve transmission. NIH fact sheet

    High in copper · 0.3 mg per 100 g, 30% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Copper contributes to maintenance of normal connective tissues.
    • Copper contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Copper contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
    5 more authorised claims
    • Copper contributes to normal hair pigmentation.
    • Copper contributes to normal iron transport in the body.
    • Copper contributes to normal skin pigmentation.
    • Copper contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Copper contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

    Copper is a mineral that you need to stay healthy. Your body uses copper to carry out many important functions, including making energy, connective tissues, and blood vessels. NIH fact sheet

    Source of iron · 2.6 mg per 100 g, 19% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Iron contributes to normal cognitive function.
    • Iron contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Iron contributes to normal formation of red blood cells and haemoglobin.
    4 more authorised claims
    • Iron contributes to normal oxygen transport in the body.
    • Iron contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Iron contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Iron has a role in the process of cell division.

    Iron is a mineral that the body needs for growth and development. Your body uses iron to make hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body, and myoglobin, a protein that provides oxygen to muscles. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Raisins, seeded”, USDA FoodData Central.

  2. Lemon High in vitamin C · Source of protein

    High in vitamin C · 53 mg per 100 g, 66% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of blood vessels.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of bones.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of cartilage.
    11 more authorised claims
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of gums.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of skin.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of teeth.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal psychological function.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the regeneration of the reduced form of vitamin E.
    • Vitamin C increases iron absorption.

    Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble nutrient found in some foods. In the body, it acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals. NIH fact sheet

    Source of protein · 1.1 g per 100 g, 15% of the energy from protein

    • Protein contributes to a growth in muscle mass.
    • Protein contributes to the maintenance of muscle mass.
    • Protein contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Lemons, raw, without peel”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

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.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. This agreeable beverage wont formerly to be fermented, — now the process is more simple.
  2. Take any number of lemons, suitable to the quantity of liquor wanted ;
  3. pare them as thin as possible ;
  4. then rub the surface with knobs of refined sugar, to extract all the zest ;
  5. put the saturated sugar into a basin, and squeeze the lemons over it.
  6. Add the best refined sugar to taste.
  7. Hot water, and a little boiling milk, if approved, may be added, in the proportions wished for : three quarts to two dozen lemons is a fair quantity, using the whole juice, but only half the rinds.
  8. Skim the liquor when well mixed, and run it through a jelly-bag previously dipped in hot water and wrung.
  9. Portable Lemonade, — very useful on Voyages or in the Country.
  10. — Take of tartaric acid one half-ounce, refined sugar three ounces, essence of lemon half a drachm.
  11. Pound the tartaric acid and sugar very well in a marble mortar, and gradually pour the essence upon the mixture.
  12. Mix the whole very well, and paper it up for use in twelve separate parcels ;
  13. each of which, when mixed with a tumbler of water, will make a very pleasant and refreshing draught.
  14. cool, put a quarter-pint of yeast to the liquid, stirring it well up.
  15. Next day put in the juice of four lemons and the thin rind.
  16. Let it ferment in the open vessel for three days, and then strain and cask it.
  17. Obs.
  18. — The wine, if properly managed, resembles Frontiniac.
  19. Elder-mine, made of the elder-berries, is a rich and expensive preparation.
  20. Made in the proportions of three pounds of sugar and three pints of elder-berry juice to the gallon of water, enriched with chopped raisins, and perfumed and flavoured with ginger, nutmeg, cloves, &c.
  21. An excellent but very expensive Elder-wine is made by using equal weight of water and Malaga raisins, and an eighth part elder-berries, and flavouring with cinnamon, cloves, mace, and ginger.
  22. This wine is the pride of many English housewives, and no expense nor pains are spared in its preparation.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mortar and pestle
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Grater
  • Wooden spoon
  • Slotted spoon
  • Sieve