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Gooseberry Wine

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Gooseberry Wine

Gooseberry Wine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. To each pound of ripe gooseberries allow one quart of water ; bruise the gooseberries ; then add the water ; let it stand (after stirring well) for twelve or fourteen hours, then strain it ; then add the sugar, as many pounds as you used quarts of water ; let it stand two days ; stir it often to dissolve sugar ; put it into the barrel, allowing it to go through the process of ferment- ing, and fill up the barrel as with currant wine.

  2. Mrs. S. J. YuNDT.

  3. 284 THE GOOD CHEER COOK BOOK.

By Chippewa Falls, Wis. Episcopal church. Ladies aid society. [from old catalog]. 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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