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Wine From Unripe Grapes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Wine From Unripe Grapes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bruise the grapes in a large tub until every berry is mashed.

  2. Add 4 gallons of cold spring water and mix well with your hand to separate the juice from the solids.

  3. Cover the tub and let it stand for 24 hours.

  4. Strain the mixture through a coarse bag and squeeze the fruit dry.

  5. Pour 1 gallon of water over the solid mass to extract more juice.

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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