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Blackberrv Wine

A blackberry wine prepared by bruising berries, steeping in water, adding sugar, and fermenting in a cask.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bruise the blackberries in a bowl.

  2. Add boiling spring water to the blackberries and let them sit overnight.

  3. Strain the mixture through a sieve to collect the liquid.

  4. For every quart of liquid, add ¾ pound of sugar and stir until dissolved.

  5. Transfer the mixture to a cask.

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

Blackberries
Provide the main fruit flavor, color, and juice for the wine.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and provides the sugar that yeast ferments into alcohol.
Boiling spring water
Extracts flavor and color from the blackberries and dilutes the juice.

“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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