Birch Wine a second Way

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (7)
wine base
fermentation
flavoring and aging
Instructions (11)
  1. Boil twenty gallons of birch water half an hour.
  2. Add thirty pounds of bastard sugar and boil the liquor and sugar three quarters of an hour, scumming it all the while.
  3. Put the mixture into a tub and let it stand until it is quite cold.
  4. Add three pints of yeft, stir it three or four times a day for four or five days.
  5. Transfer the mixture to a cask.
  6. Add two pounds of Malaga raisins, one pound of loaf sugar, and half an ounce of isinglass (dissolved in part of the liquor).
  7. Add one gallon of new ale that is ready for tunning.
  8. Work the mixture very well in the cask for five or six days.
  9. Close the cask up.
  10. Let it stand for a year.
  11. Bottle it off.
Original Text
To make Birch Wine a second Way. BOIL twenty gallons of birch water half an hour, then put in thirty pounds of bastard sugar, boil your liquor and sugar three quarters of an hour, and keep scumming it all the while, then put it into a tub, and let it stand till it is quite cold, add to it three pints of yeft, stir it three or four times a day for four or five days, then put it into a cask, with two pounds of Malaga raisins, one pound of loaf sugar, and half an ounce of isinglass, which must be dissolved in part of the liquor, then put to it one gallon of new ale that is ready for tunning, work it very well in the cask five or six days, then close it up, let it stand a year, and then bottle it off.
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