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Gooseberry Wine

A fermented beverage made from gooseberries, boiling water, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Gooseberry Wine

Gooseberry Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Add 3 pints of boiling water to 1 gallon of gooseberries.

  2. Let the mixture stand for 2 days.

  3. Mash the gooseberries and squeeze out the juice.

Ferment

  1. Add 3 pounds of sugar to the juice.

  2. Transfer the mixture to a cask and allow it to ferment.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Gooseberries
Provide the fruit juice and flavor that form the base of the wine.
Sugar
Feeds the yeast during fermentation and adds sweetness to the finished wine.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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