Name: Plum Juice
Ingredients: 100 pounds wild goose plums; 8 gallons water

Plum Juice

Ingredients

100 pounds wild goose plums
8 gallons water

Directions

Prepare the juice in a tank as you would for apple juice.
Use 8 gallons of water for every 100 pounds of plums.

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

Wild goose plums: Provide the fruit flavour, natural sugars and acidity that make up the juice.
Water: Dilutes the fruit to a drinkable juice strength and carries its flavour.

“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.