Elderberry Wine
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the juice
Heat elderberries to at least 170°F (77°C) to concentrate the juice.
Express the juice from the heated elderberries.
Ferment
Add 3 pounds of sugar to each gallon of juice.
Allow the mixture to ferment in a covered vessel.
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
- Sugar
- Feeds the yeast during fermentation and sweetens the finished wine.
- Elderberries
- Supply the juice, flavor and color that make up the wine.
The step that matters
Heating the elderberries. Heating softens the berries' cell walls, so more juice releases when pressed. Reaching at least 170°F, as the record states, is what the step depends on.
“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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