Name: Gooseberry Wine
Ingredients: nine pints of juice add four pints of rain water; four pounds brown sugar; one half gallon rain water; two pounds of sugar; four pints of rain water

Gooseberry Wine

A fermented beverage made from gooseberries, sugar, and water, left to stand for weeks before bottling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Vehling, Joseph Dommers, 1879-1950. fmo · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients

Gooseberry Wine

Ingredients

nine pints of juice add four pints of rain water
four pounds brown sugar
one half gallon rain water
two pounds of sugar
four pints of rain water

Directions

Prepare the juice

Gather the berries when ripe.
Mash them well and let stand for three to four days.
Strain the mash.

Make the wine

Add four pints of rain water to nine pints of juice.
Add four pounds of brown sugar to the mixture.
Let stand for five to six weeks.
Strain again.

Bottle

Bottle the wine.

By Vehling, Joseph Dommers, 1879-1950. fmo. 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. See the original page.

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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Juice: Provides the fruit flavour and the base that the wine ferments from.
Brown sugar: Feeds the yeast during fermentation, which turns it into alcohol and adds sweetness.

“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.