Elder Wine. No. 3.

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 (4)
Instructions (6)
  1. Take twenty-four pounds of raisins, of whatever sort you please; pick them clean, chop them small, put them into a tub, and cover them with three gallons of water that has been boiled and become cold.
  2. Let it stand ten days, stirring it twice a day.
  3. Then strain the liquor through a hair sieve, draining it all from the raisins, and put to it three pints of the juice of elderberries and a pound of loaf-sugar.
  4. Put the whole into the cask, and let it stand close stopped, but not in too cold a cellar, for three or four months before you bottle it.
  5. The peg-hole must not be stopped till it has done working.
Juice from berries
  1. The best way to draw the juice from the berries is to strip them into an earthen pan, and set it in the oven all night.
Original Text
Elder Wine. No. 3. Take twenty-four pounds of raisins, of whatever sort you please; pick them clean, chop them small, put them into a tub, and cover them with three gallons of water that has been boiled and become cold. Let it stand ten days, stirring it twice a day. Then strain the liquor through a hair sieve, draining it all from the raisins, and put to it three pints of the juice of elderberries and a pound of loaf-sugar. Put the whole into the cask, and let it stand close stopped, but not in too cold a cellar, for three or four months before you bottle it. The peg-hole must not be stopped till it has done working. The best way to draw the juice from the berries is to strip them into an earthen pan, and set it in the oven all night.
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