Gooseberry Wine. No. 1.

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.
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (6)
  1. To every pound of white amber gooseberries, when heads and tails are picked off and well bruised in a mortar, add a quart of spring water, which must be previously boiled.
  2. Let it stand till it is cold before it is put to the fruit.
  3. Let them steep three days, stirring them twice a day; strain and press them through a sieve into a barrel,
  4. and to every gallon of liquor put three pounds of loaf-sugar, and to every five gallons a bottle of brandy.
  5. Hang a small bag of isinglass in the barrel; bung it close,
  6. and, in six months, if the sweetness is sufficiently gone off, bottle it, and rosin the corks well over the top.
Original Text
Gooseberry Wine. No. 1. To every pound of white amber gooseberries, when heads and tails are picked off and well bruised in a mortar, add a quart of spring water, which must be previously boiled. Let it stand till it is cold before it is put to the fruit. Let them steep three days, stirring them twice a day; strain and press[387] them through a sieve into a barrel, and to every gallon of liquor put three pounds of loaf-sugar, and to every five gallons a bottle of brandy. Hang a small bag of isinglass in the barrel; bung it close, and, in six months, if the sweetness is sufficiently gone off, bottle it, and rosin the corks well over the top. The fruit must be fall grown, but quite green.
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