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Black Cherry Wine

Fermented beverage made from black cherries, water, and sugar.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit and water

  1. Boil the spring water for 1 hour.

  2. Bruise the black cherries without breaking the stones.

  3. Pour the boiling water over the cherries and stir well.

Ferment and add sugar

  1. Let the mixture stand for 24 hours.

  2. Strain the liquid through a cloth.

  3. Add 2 pounds of sugar for every gallon of liquid and mix well.

  4. Let it stand for an additional day.

Clarify and bottle

  1. Pour off the clear liquid into a cask and seal it tightly.

  2. When fine, bottle it 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

Black cherries
Provide the main fruit flavour, colour and juice for the wine.
Sugar
Feeds the fermentation and adds sweetness to 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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