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Strawberry Wine

A fermented beverage made from mashed strawberries, water, and brown sugar.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Mash the strawberries and add ½ gallon of boiling water to each gallon of fruit.

  2. Let the mixture stand for 24 hours, then strain it.

  3. Add 3 pounds of brown sugar to each gallon of juice.

  4. Let the mixture stand for 36 hours, skimming off any impurities that rise to the top.

Ferment in the cask

  1. Transfer the mixture to a cask, reserving some juice to add as it escapes.

  2. Fill the cask each morning.

  3. Cork and seal the cask tightly after fermentation is complete.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the flavour and the fruit juice that ferments into wine.
Brown sugar
Feeds the yeast during fermentation, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide.
Boiling water
Extracts juice from the mashed fruit and dilutes it to a workable liquid.

The step that matters

Filling the cask each morning. Fermentation pushes foam and gas out of the cask, so the level drops. Topping up with reserved juice keeps air out of the liquid, which limits spoilage and oxidation.

“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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