Currant Wine. No. 2.

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. To every gallon of ripe currants put a gallon of cold water.
  2. When well broken with the hands, let it stand twenty-four hours.
  3. Then squeeze the currants well out; measure your juice, and to every gallon put four pounds of lump sugar.
  4. When the sugar is well melted, put the wine into a cask, stirring it every day, till it has done hissing;
  5. then put into it a quart of brandy to every five gallons of wine;
  6. close it well up; bottle it in three months.
Original Text
Currant Wine. No. 2. To every gallon of ripe currants put a gallon of cold water. When well broken with the hands, let it stand twenty-four hours.[382] Then squeeze the currants well out; measure your juice, and to every gallon put four pounds of lump sugar. When the sugar is well melted, put the wine into a cask, stirring it every day, till it has done hissing; then put into it a quart of brandy to every five gallons of wine; close it well up; bottle it in three months.
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