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Blackbeeey Wine

A fermented blackberry wine made with blackberries, boiling water, and brown sugar.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Measure the blackberries and bruise them.

  2. Add 1 quart of boiling water to the berries.

  3. Let them stand for 24 hours, stirring occasionally.

  4. Strain the juice through a flannel bag.

Ferment

  1. Add 2 pounds of brown sugar to the juice.

  2. Pour the mixture into a cask.

  3. Let it ferment.

  4. Seal tightly.

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

Blackberries
Provide the fruit juice that forms the base of the wine.
Brown sugar
Supplies sugar for the yeast to ferment into alcohol, adding sweetness and flavor.

“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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