Blackberry Wine
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the juice
Pour boiling water over the blackberries.
Beat the blackberries with a pestle in the water and strain when cold.
Sweeten and bottle
Add 3 pounds of loaf sugar to the blackberry juice and simmer for 30 minutes.
Bottle the mixture with thin muslin tied over the top and let it stand until October.
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
- Blackberries
- Provide the main flavor, color, and juice that forms the base of the wine.
- Loaf sugar
- Adds sweetness and provides the sugar that yeast ferments into alcohol.
The step that matters
Simmering the juice with sugar. Simmer gently so the loaf sugar dissolves fully into the juice without scorching. Fully dissolved sugar is evenly available to the yeast later, which ferments it into alcohol during standing.
“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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