Elder Wine
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Boil the water for 1 hour.
Let the boiled water cool until milk-warm.
Ferment
Pour the milk-warm water into an earthen jar with the cut raisins.
Let it stand for fermentation.
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
- Malaga raisins
- Supply the sugar that yeast ferments into alcohol, and flavour for the wine.
- Water
- Dissolves the raisin sugars and carries the yeast activity that drives fermentation.
The step that matters
Let the boiled water cool until milk-warm. Water that is still hot can kill the wild yeasts on the raisins, while cold water slows fermentation. Milk-warm is gentle enough for yeast to survive and start working.
“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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