Red Currant 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.
Yield
5.0 gallons
Status
success · extracted 14 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (8)
Another way
Instructions (11)
  1. Gather the fruit dry; pick the leaves from it.
  2. To every twenty-five pounds of currants put six quarts of water.
  3. Break the currants well, before the water is put to them.
  4. Let them stand twenty-four hours.
  5. Strain the liquor, to every quart of which put a pound of sugar and as many raspberries as you please.
Another way
  1. Take twenty-four pounds of currants; bruise them, and add to that quantity three gallons of water.
  2. Let it stand two days, stirring it twice a day.
  3. Strain the liquor from the fruit.
  4. To every quart of liquor put one pound of sugar.
  5. Let it stand three days, stirring it twice a day.
  6. Put it in your barrel, and put into it six-pennyworth of orris-root well bruised.
Original Text
Red Currant Wine. Gather the fruit dry; pick the leaves from it, and to every twenty-five pounds of currants put six quarts of water. Break the currants well, before the water is put to them; then let them stand twenty-four hours, and strain the liquor, to every quart of which put a pound of sugar and as many raspberries as you please. Another way. Take twenty-four pounds of currants; bruise them, and add to that quantity three gallons of water. Let it stand two days, stirring it twice a day; then strain the liquor from the fruit; and to every quart of liquor put one pound of sugar. Let it stand three days, stirring it twice a day; then put it in your barrel, and put into it six-pennyworth of orris-root well bruised. The above quantities will make five gallons.
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