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Raisin Wine

A fermented wine made by steeping crushed muscatel raisins in boiling water, then adding rum or brandy.

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

Raisin Wine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour 1 gallon of boiling water over 4 pounds of fine new muscatels that have been well crushed in a mortar.

  2. Let it stand for a week, stirring occasionally.

  3. Strain through a jelly bag and jar it.

  4. Add 1 bottle of rum or British brandy.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Muscatels
Provide sugar and fruit flavour that the wine ferments and carries.
Rum or british brandy
Adds alcohol and aroma, strengthening and rounding the finished wine.

“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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