Elderberry Wine
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the juice
Squeeze the elderberries through a wine press.
Add an equal amount of water to the juice.
Ferment and bottle
Mix in 3 pounds of sugar for every gallon of the water and juice mixture.
Transfer to bottles or large jars and let it ferment.
Once fermentation stops, bottle the wine.
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
- Elderberries
- Supply the juice, flavor and color that form the body of the wine.
- Sugar
- Feeds the yeast, which turns it into alcohol, and adds sweetness to the finished wine.
The step that matters
Bottle only after fermentation stops. While yeast is still converting sugar, it releases carbon dioxide. Bottling early can build pressure and cause bottles to burst, and leftover sugar can keep fermenting in the bottle.
“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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