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Gooseberry Wine

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

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

Gooseberry Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Bruise the gooseberries in a tub.

  2. Add 1 quart of cold spring water for every 6 pounds of fruit and stir thoroughly.

  3. Let the mixture stand for 20 hours.

  4. Strain the mixture.

Add sugar and ferment

  1. Dissolve 2 pounds of sugar in the water used.

  2. Let the mixture sit for another day.

  3. Remove the scum carefully.

  4. Keep the removed scum in flannel.

  5. Add the drainings to the main liquid.

  6. Pour the liquid into a cask for fermentation.

  7. Let it ferment for about 60 hours.

  8. Cover it tightly.

  9. Wait 4 months until ready for bottling.

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

Gooseberries
Provide the fruit flavour and the body of the wine.
Sugar
Feeds the fermentation and sweetens the finished wine.
Spring water
Dilutes the fruit juice so it can ferment evenly.

“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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