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Grape Must or Sweet Wine

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Grape Must or Sweet Wine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather black grapes from the vine, removing any green or rotten ones.

  2. Pick the grapes from the stem and crush them on a fine sieve.

  3. Press the marc left on the sieve to extract any remaining juice.

  4. Combine the juice from the press and the sieve into a small cask.

  5. Let the mixture settle for 24 hours.

  6. Bottle the mixture and heat it in a water bath to clarify.

  7. Arrange the bottles on laths to cool.

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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