Cowslip Wine

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 30 min Total: 30 min
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (6)
wine base
bottling
Instructions (7)
  1. Boil two gallons of water and two pounds and a half of powder sugar for half an hour, skimming off the scum as it rises.
  2. Pour the mixture into a tub and add the rinds of two lemons.
  3. When the mixture is cold, add four quarts of cowslip flowers and the juice of two lemons.
  4. Let it stand in the tub for two days, stirring it every two or three hours.
  5. Transfer the mixture to a barrel and let it stand for three weeks or a month.
  6. Bottle the wine.
  7. Add a lump of sugar to every bottle.
Original Text
To make CowSLIP Wine. TO two gallons of water add two pounds and a half of powder sugar, boil it half an hour, and take off the scum as it rises, then pour it into a tub, with the rinds of two lemons; when it is cold add four quarts of cowslip flowers to the liquor, with the juice of two lemons, let it stand in the tub two days, stirring it every two or three hours, and then put it in the barrel, and let it stand three weeks or a month, then bottle it, and put a lump of sugar into every bottle.—N. B. It makes the best and strongest wine to have only the tops of the peeps.
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