Name: Gooseberry Wine to Resemble Champagne
Ingredients: 40 pounds gooseberries; cream of tartar (or crude tartar)

Gooseberry Wine to Resemble Champagne

Ingredients

40 pounds gooseberries
cream of tartar (or crude tartar)

Directions

Select gooseberries that are full grown but not ripe, preferably those with the least flavor when ripe.
Separate the smallest gooseberries using a sieve, discarding unsound or bruised fruit.
Remove the remains of blossoms and fruit-stalks.
In a clean tub that holds 15-20 gallons, bruise the gooseberries.
Add cream of tartar to promote fermentation.

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.