Elder Wine. No. 4.

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
9.0 gallons
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (5)
base
fermentation
finishing
Instructions (12)
  1. Mash eight gallons of picked elderberries to pieces.
  2. Add as much spring water as will make the whole nine gallons.
  3. Boil slowly for three quarters of an hour.
  4. Squeeze them through a cloth sieve.
  5. Add twenty-eight pounds of moist sugar.
  6. Boil them together for half an hour.
  7. Run the liquor through your cloth sieve again.
  8. Let it stand till lukewarm.
  9. Put into it a toast with a little yeast upon it.
  10. Let it stand for seven or eight days, stirring it every day.
  11. Then put it into a close tub, and let it remain without a bung till it has done hissing.
  12. Before you bung up close, you may add one pint of brandy at pleasure.
Original Text
Elder Wine. No. 4. Mash eight gallons of picked elderberries to pieces, add as much spring water as will make the whole nine gallons, and boil slowly for three quarters of an hour. Squeeze them through a cloth sieve; add twenty-eight pounds of moist sugar, and boil them together for half an hour. Run the liquor through your cloth sieve again; let it stand till lukewarm; put into it a toast with a little yest upon it, and let it stand for seven or eight days, stirring it every day. Then put it into a close tub, and let it remain without a bung till it has done hissing. Before you bung up close, you may add one pint of brandy at pleasure.
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