WALNUT 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: No

Ingredients (5)

For the wine base

gallon of water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
two pounds of brown sugar ↝ Sugars, brown [Sweets]
one pound of honey ↝ Honey [Sweets]
a handful of walnut leaves to every gallon ↝ Nuts, walnuts, English, halves, raw [Nut and Seed Products]

For fermentation

half a pint of yeft

Instructions (5)

To every gallon of water put two pounds of brown sugar and one pound of honey, boil them half an hour, and take off the scum.
Put into the tub a handful of walnut leaves to every gallon, and pour the liquor upon them.
Let it stand all night, then take out the leaves, and put in half a pint of yeft, and let it work fourteen days.
Beat it four or five times a-day, which will take off the sweetness.
Then stop up the cask, and let it stand six months.

Original Text

To make WALNUT Wine.

TO every gallon of water put two pounds of brown sugar and one pound of honey, boil them half an hour, and take off the scum, put into the tub a handful of walnut leaves to every gallon, and pour the liquor upon them, let it stand all night, then take out the leaves, and put in half a pint of yeft, and let it work fourteen days, beat it four or five times a-day, which will take off the sweetness, then stop up the cask, and let it stand six months.—This is a good wine against consumptions, or any inward complaints.

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