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Cherry Wine

A simple cherry wine made by infusing cherries in boiling water, sweetened with sugar, then sealed and aged.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Measure and bruise the cherries.

Steep and strain

  1. Add 1 quart of boiling water to the cherries and let it stand for 24 hours, stirring occasionally.

  2. Strain the mixture into a jar.

Sweeten and age

  1. Add 2 pounds of sugar for every gallon of liquid.

  2. Seal the jar tightly and let it stand until the next October.

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

Cherries
Provide the main fruit flavour and colour, and the sugars that ferment into alcohol.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and feeds the fermentation that produces alcohol.

“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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