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Cranberry Wine

A fermented beverage made from cranberries, water, and sugar.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cranberries

  1. Mash the ripe cranberries and place them in a stone jar.

  2. Add ½ the quantity of cold water and stir well.

  3. Let the mixture stand for 2 days.

  4. Strain through a jelly bag.

Build the liquid

  1. Mash a second batch of cranberries and cover with the strained liquid.

  2. Repeat the process as before.

Sweeten and bottle

  1. Combine 1 pound of sugar with 3 quarts of the liquid and boil for 5 minutes.

  2. Ferment in cloth-covered jars, then rack off and bottle.

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

Ripe cranberries
Provide the tart fruit flavour and colour that define the wine.
Sugar
Sweetens the wine and provides the sugar that yeast ferments into alcohol.
Cold water
Draws juice and flavour out of the mashed cranberries and dilutes the mixture.

“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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