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Home Made Wines

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Home Made Wines

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix fruit, sugar, vegetable extract, malic acid, and water in a suitable container.

  2. Allow fermentation to begin, which will take about a day.

  3. Monitor the fermentation; do not let it continue too long or stop it too early.

  4. For sweet wine, keep the cask open until fermentation noise almost ceases.

  5. For dry wine, prepare a barrel treated with sulfur fumes and transfer the wine into it.

  6. Rack off the wine, clarify it with isinglass, and bottle it after about ten weeks.

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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