Name: Pure Wine
Ingredients: 3 gallons water; 5 lbs. bloom raisins, stoned

Pure Wine

Ingredients

3 gallons water
5 lbs. bloom raisins, stoned

Directions

Put the water and raisins in a narrow-mouthed stone jug.
Cover the jug with a fine rag and keep it near a fire for ten days.
After ten days, rack off the liquid.

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

Bloom raisins: Provide sugar and flavour that ferment into the wine's alcohol and aroma.
Water: Makes up the bulk of the liquid in which the raisin sugars dissolve and ferment.

“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.