Gooseberry Wine

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (6)
wine base
bottling
Instructions (13)
  1. Take as many of the best pearl gooseberries when ripe as you please.
  2. Bruise them with a wooden pestle in a tub.
  3. Let them stand all night.
  4. Press and squeeze them through a hair sieve.
  5. Let the liquor stand seven or eight hours.
  6. Pour it clear from the sediments.
  7. To every three pints of liquor add a pound of double refined sugar, and stir it about till it is melted.
  8. Put to it five pints of water, and two pounds more of sugar.
  9. Dissolve half an ounce of isinglass in part of the liquor that has been boiled.
  10. Put all in your cask.
  11. Stop it well up for three months.
  12. Then bottle it.
  13. Put in every bottle a lump of double refined sugar.
Original Text
TAKE as many of the beſt pearl gooſeberries when ripe as you pleaſe, bruiſe them with a wooden peſtle in a tub, and let them ſtand all night, then preſs and ſqueeze them through a hair ſieve, let the liquor ſtand ſeven or eight hours, then pour it clear from the ſediments; and to every three pints of liquor add a pound of double refined ſugar, and ſtir it about till it is melted, then put to it five pints of water, and two pounds more of ſugar, then diſſolve half an ounce of iſinglaſs in part of the liquor that has been boiled, put all in your caſk, ſtop it well up for three months, then bottle it, and put in every bottle a lump of double refined ſugar.—This is excellent wine.
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