Gooseberry 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 (3)
Instructions (11)
  1. Melt the sugar.
  2. Bruise the gooseberries with an apple-beater, but do not beat them too small.
  3. Strain them through a hair strainer.
  4. Put the juice into an earthen pot.
  5. Keep it covered four or five days till it is clear.
  6. Add half a pint of the best brandy or more, according to the quantity of fruit.
  7. Draw it out into another vessel, letting it run into a hair sieve.
  8. Stop it close.
  9. Let it stand one fortnight longer.
  10. Draw it off into quart bottles.
  11. In a month it will be fit for drinking.
Original Text
Gooseberry Wine. No. 3. A pound of sugar to a pound of fruit: melt the sugar, and bruise the gooseberries with an apple-beater, but do not beat them too small. Strain them through a hair strainer, and put the juice into an earthen pot; keep it covered four or five days till it is clear: then add half a pint of the best brandy or more, according to the quantity of fruit, and draw it out into another vessel, letting it run into a hair sieve. Stop it close, and let it stand one fortnight longer; then draw it off into quart bottles, and in a month it will be fit for drinking.
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