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Raspberry Wine

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

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Pound the raspberries and strain through a cloth.

  2. Boil an equal amount of water to the juice.

  3. Let the boiled water cool.

  4. Pour the cooled water over the dry fruit.

  5. Let the mixture stand for 5 hours.

  6. Strain the mixture again.

  7. Mix the strained liquid with the rest of the juice.

Ferment and bottle

  1. Add 2.5 pounds of sugar for every gallon of liquid.

  2. Let it stand in a covered earthen vessel for a week.

  3. Transfer the liquid to a clean cask.

  4. Seal the cask.

  5. Bottle the wine when it is fine.

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

Raspberries
Provide the juice and flavour that make up the body of the wine.
Sugar
Feeds the fermentation and adds sweetness, which also influences the wine's final alcohol level.

“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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