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Blackberry Wine

A fermented beverage made from blackberries, water, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Blackberry Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Measure and bruise the blackberries.

  2. Add 1 pint of water for every gallon of berries.

  3. Let the mixture stand for 24 hours, stirring occasionally.

  4. Strain off the juice.

Make the wine

  1. Add 3 pounds of sugar for every gallon of juice.

  2. Transfer to a cask and let it stand until October.

  3. Rack it off and bottle.

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

Blackberries
Provide the fruit, flavour and colour, and the juice that becomes the wine.
Sugar
Feeds the fermentation and sweetens the finished wine, with its sugar converted to alcohol.

“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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