Name: Gooseberry Wine
Ingredients: 1 pound gooseberries; ½ quart clear water; ½ quart sugar

Gooseberry Wine

Ingredients

1 pound gooseberries
½ quart clear water
½ quart sugar

Directions

Prepare

Bruise the gooseberries well and soak them in the water for 24 hours, stirring frequently.
Press out the liquid and add the sugar, stirring until dissolved.

Ferment

Transfer the mixture into a clean cask and let it ferment.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Gooseberries: Provide the fruit flavour, natural acidity and sugars that the yeast ferments into alcohol.
Sugar: Feeds the yeast during fermentation, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide, and adds 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.