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Pink Champagne

A wine infused with strawberries and powdered cochineal, aged for a month.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Pink Champagne

Ingredients

Directions

Make the wine

  1. Add strawberries and powdered cochineal to the wine.

  2. Bottle the mixture and keep it cool for one month.

Serve

  1. After one month, the pink Champagne will be ready for use.

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

Strawberries
Add fruit flavour and aroma to the wine.
Powdered cochineal
Provides the pink colour of 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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