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To Make Wine From Any Kind of Berries

A homemade wine made by fermenting berries with water and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Make Wine From Any Kind of Berries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine the berries and boiling water in a jar and let it sit overnight.

  2. Strain the mixture and add 1 pint of white sugar for each quart of juice.

Ferment and bottle

  1. Let it sit in the jar for 10 days, stirring several times a day to hasten fermentation.

  2. After 10 days, skim and strain the liquid into bottles and seal them.

  3. The wine will be ready to use in 6 months.

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

Berries
Provide the main flavor and color, and natural sugars for fermentation.
White sugar
Feeds the yeast, which turns it into alcohol and carbon dioxide, and adds sweetness.

The step that matters

Sealing the bottles. Fermentation keeps producing carbon dioxide after bottling. If the wine is sealed while fermentation is still active, the gas can build pressure in the bottles and they may burst.

“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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