Raisin Wine

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 60 min Total: 60 min
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
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Ingredients (2)
For the wine
Instructions (6)
  1. Boil ten gallons of spring water for one hour.
  2. When it is milk warm, to every gallon add six pounds of Malaga raisins, clean picked and half chopped.
  3. Stir it up together twice a day for nine or ten days.
  4. Then run it through a hair sieve, and squeeze the raisins well with your hands.
  5. Put the liquor in your barrel, bung it close up, and let it stand three months.
  6. Then bottle it.
Original Text
BOIL ten gallons of ſpring water one hour, when it is milk warm, to every gallon add fix pounds of Malaga raiſins, clean picked and half chopped, ſtir it up together twice a day for nine or ten days, then run it through a hair ſieve, and ſqueeze the raiſins well with your hands, and put the liquor in your barrel, bung it cloſe up, and let it ſtand three months, and then bottle it.
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