Cherry Wine

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
Status
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (8)
For the first method
For the second method
Instructions (9)
  1. Pound morella cherries with the kernels over-night, and set them in a cool place.
  2. Squeeze them through canvas.
  3. To each quart of juice put one pound of powdered sugar, half an ounce of coarsely-pounded cinnamon, and half a quarter of an ounce of cloves.
  4. Let it stand about a fortnight in the sun, shaking it twice or three times every day.
Another way
  1. Take twenty-four pounds of cherries, cleared from the stalks, and mash them in an earthen pan.
  2. Put the pulp into a flannel bag, and let them remain till the whole of the juice has drained from the pulp.
  3. Put a pound of loaf sugar into the pan which receives the juice, and let it remain until the sugar is dissolved.
  4. Bottle it.
  5. When it has done working, you may put into each bottle a small lump of sugar.
Original Text
Cherry Wine. Pound morella cherries with the kernels over-night, and set them in a cool place. Squeeze them through canvas, and to each quart of juice put one pound of powdered sugar, half an ounce of coarsely-pounded cinnamon, and half a quarter of an ounce of cloves. Let it stand about a fortnight in the sun, shaking it twice or three times every day. Another way. Take twenty-four pounds of cherries, cleared from the stalks, and mash them in an earthen pan; then put the pulp into a flannel bag, and let them remain till the whole of the juice has drained from the pulp. Put a pound of loaf sugar into the pan which receives the juice, and let it remain until the sugar is dissolved. Bottle it, and, when it has done working, you may put into each bottle a small lump of sugar.
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