Name: Blackberry Wine
Ingredients: 6 quarts blackberries; 1 ½ gallons boiling water; 12 pounds sugar

Blackberry Wine

Ingredients

6 quarts blackberries
1 ½ gallons boiling water
12 pounds sugar

Directions

Prepare the juice

Measure the blackberries and bruise them.
Add 1 ½ gallons of boiling water to the berries.
Let the mixture stand for 24 hours, stirring occasionally.
Strain the liquid into a cask or jug.

Ferment and bottle

Add 12 pounds of sugar to the liquid.
Leave the mixture open to ferment.
Once fermentation is complete, bottle and seal the wine.

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

Blackberries: Provide the fruit flavour, colour and natural sugars that yeast ferments into alcohol.
Sugar: Feeds the yeast during fermentation, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide, and sets the wine's 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.