Ginger Wine

The housekeeper's instructor; or, uni... · William Augustus Henderson · 1791

Source: The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook
Status: success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (8)

seven pounds of Lisbon sugar
four gallons of spring water
the juice of two lemons
the peels, with two ounces of ginger, in three pints of water
three pints of water
two spoonsful of yeast
a quarter of an ounce of isinglass beat very thin
two pounds of jar raisins

Instructions (4)

Put seven pounds of Lisbon sugar into four gallons of spring water, boil them a quarter of an hour, and keep skimming it all the time.
When the liquor is cold, squeeze in the juice of two lemons, and then boil the peels, with two ounces of ginger, in three pints of water, for an hour.
When it is cold, put it all together into a barrel, with two spoonsful of yeast, a quarter of an ounce of isinglass beat very thin, and two pounds of jar raisins.
Then close it up, let it stand seven weeks, and then bottle it off.

Original Text

Ginger Wine.
PUT seven pounds of Lisbon sugar into four gallons of spring water, boil them a quarter of an hour, and keep skimming it all the time. When the liquor is cold, squeeze in the juice of two lemons, and then boil the peels, with two ounces of ginger, in three pints of water, for an hour. When it is cold, put it all together into a barrel, with two spoonsful of yeast, a quarter of an ounce of isinglass beat very thin, and two pounds of jar raisins. Then close it up, let it stand seven weeks, and then bottle it off.

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