Dr. Macculloch's Receipt for Making Gooseberry Wine
Ingredients
Directions
Select gooseberries before they ripen, when they are nearly full-grown.
Separate the smallest berries using a sieve.
Discard any unsound or bruised fruit.
Add sugar to the gooseberries and follow fermentation process as desired.
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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