Name: Gooseberry Wine
Ingredients: 10 gallons ripe gooseberries; 30 gallons water; 2 pounds Lisbon sugar per gallon

Gooseberry Wine

Ingredients

10 gallons ripe gooseberries
30 gallons water
2 pounds Lisbon sugar per gallon

Directions

Bruise the ripe gooseberries and soak them in 30 gallons of water for 24 hours.
Strain the mixture.
Add 2 pounds of Lisbon sugar to each gallon of the strained liquid and allow it to ferment.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Gooseberries: Provide the fruit flavour and acidity that give the wine its character.
Lisbon sugar: Feeds the fermentation, which produces the alcohol in the wine.

“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.