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To Make Champagne Cider for Four Cents a Gallon

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Home canning. Old canning methods can let botulism through. Use current tested canning guidance.

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. five gallons lukewarm water
  2. one gallon common molasses
  3. three pounds of brown sugar
  4. one pound of Mustard
  5. one gallon of yeast
  6. a pound of tartaric acid
  7. one gallon of vinegar
Contains MustardSulphites Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Cook safely

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

  • 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. Take five gallons lukewarm water, add one gallon common molasses, three pounds of brown sugar, one gallon of vinegar, one gallon of yeast, quarter of a pound of tartaric acid.
  2. Let it stand in the warm water to dissolve one hour, then add cold water.
  3. Let stand forty-eight hours to work with bung out.
  4. This maives forty-two gallons.
  5. In all cases the barrel should be full.
  6. To keep for a length of time add one pound of Mustard.
  7. Bottle and seal it well.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife