Blackberry Wine

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 15 min Total: 10800 min
Status
success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (5)
wine base
aging and clarification
Instructions (12)
  1. Gather your berries when they are full ripe.
  2. Crush twelve quarts of berries with your hand.
  3. Boil six gallons of water with twelve pounds of brown sugar for a quarter of an hour.
  4. Scum the boiling water and sugar mixture well.
  5. Pour the hot mixture over the crushed blackberries and let it stand all night.
  6. Strain the mixture through a hair sieve.
  7. Put six pounds of slightly cut Malaga raisins into your cask.
  8. Pour the wine into the cask.
  9. Add one ounce of isinglass, which must be dissolved in a little cider.
  10. Stir all ingredients together.
  11. Close the cask and let it stand for six months.
  12. Bottle the wine.
Original Text
GATHER your berries when they are full ripe, take twelve quarts, and cruſh them with your hand, boil fix gallons of water with twelve pounds of brown ſugar a quarter of an hour, ſcum it well, then pour it on the blackberries, and let it ſtand all night, then ſtrain it through a hair ſieve, put into your caſk fix pounds of Malaga raiſins a little cut, then put the wine into the caſk with one ounce of iſinglaſs, which muſt be diſſolved in a little cyder, ſtir it all up together, cloſe it up, and let it ſtand fix months, and then bottle it.
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