Gooseberry Wine

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (2)
For the wine
Instructions (16)
  1. Gather gooseberries in dry weather, when they are half ripe.
  2. Pick the gooseberries.
  3. Bruise a peck of gooseberries in a tub with a wooden mallet.
  4. Take a horse-hair cloth and press the gooseberries as much as possible without breaking the seeds.
  5. When all the juice is pressed out, to every gallon of gooseberries, add three pounds of fine dry powder sugar.
  6. Stir the mixture until the sugar is completely dissolved.
  7. Pour the mixture into a vessel or cask, ensuring it is completely full.
  8. If using a ten or twelve gallon cask, let it stand for a fortnight.
  9. If using a twenty gallon cask, let it stand for five weeks.
  10. Set the cask in a cool place.
  11. Draw off the liquor from the lees.
  12. Clean the vessel of the lees.
  13. Pour the clear liquor back into the vessel.
  14. If using a ten gallon cask, let it stand for three months.
  15. If using a twenty gallon cask, let it stand for four or five months.
  16. Bottle the wine.
Original Text
GATHER your gooseberries in dry weather, when they are half ripe, pick them, and bruise it a peck in a tub, with a wooden mallet; then take a horse-hair cloth, and press them as much as possible, without breaking the seeds. When you have pressed out all the juice, to every gallon of gooseberries, put three pounds of fine dry powder sugar, stir it together till the sugar is all dissolved, then put it in a vessel or cask, which must be quite full. If a ten or twelve gallon, let it stand a fortnight; if a twenty gallon cask, let it stand five weeks. Set it in a cool place, then draw it off from the lees, clear the vessel of the lees, and pour in the clear liquor again. If it be a ten gallon cask, let it stand three months; if a twenty gallon, four or five months, then bottle it off.
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