A Superior Blackberry Wine
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the juice
Bruise the blackberries and measure them.
Add 1 quart of boiling water to the berries and let it stand for 24 hours, stirring 3-4 times.
On the third day, strain off the juice.
Ferment
Add 2 pounds of refined sugar to the strained juice.
Cork it tightly and let it stand until cool weather.
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
- Blackberries
- Provide the fruit flavour, colour and natural sugars that the wine is made from.
- Refined sugar
- Feeds the yeast during fermentation, and sweetens the finished wine.
The step that matters
Corking the juice tightly. A tight seal keeps air out so the juice ferments rather than spoiling, and the sugar-fed yeast converts sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
“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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