Elder-flower 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.
Time: Cook: 30 min Total: 30 min
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (6)

wine base

six gallons of water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
eighteen pounds of lump-sugar ↝ Sugar, white, granulated or lump [Sugars and honey]
a quarter of a peck of elder-flowers picked clean from the stalks ↝ Sesbania flower, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
the juice and rinds of six lemons pared very thin ↝ Lemon, raw [Citrus fruits]
six pounds of raisins ↝ Raisins [Dried fruits]

fermentation starter

three or four spoonfuls of yest upon a piece of bread well toasted

Instructions (7)

Boil the water and sugar for half an hour, skimming it all the time.
Put the elder-flowers, lemon juice and rinds, and raisins into a cask.
When the water and sugar is about milk warm, pour it into the cask upon these ingredients.
Spread the yest upon a piece of bread well toasted, and put it into the cask.
Stir it up for three or four days only.
When it has done working, bung it up.
In six or eight months it will be fit for bottling.

Original Text

Elder-flower Wine.

To six gallons of water put eighteen pounds of lump-sugar; boil it half an hour, skimming it all the time. Put into a cask a quarter of a peck of elder-flowers picked clean from the stalks, the juice and rinds of six lemons pared very thin, and six pounds of raisins. When the water and sugar is about milk warm, pour it into the cask upon these ingredients; spread three or four spoonfuls of yest upon a piece of bread well toasted, and put it into the cask; stir it up for three or four days only; when it has done working, bung it up, and in six or eight months it will be fit for bottling.

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