Name: Gooseberry Wine
Ingredients: 5 gallons ripe gooseberries; 3 gallons clear water; 2 pounds sugar per gallon of juice

Gooseberry Wine

Ingredients

5 gallons ripe gooseberries
3 gallons clear water
2 pounds sugar per gallon of juice

Directions

Prepare the juice

Bruise the gooseberries in a large container.
Boil the water for 30 minutes, then pour it hot over the mashed fruit.
Stir the mixture well, cover it, and let it sit for 48 hours, stirring 2-3 times a day.
After 48 hours, strain the mixture through a large sieve or cloth to extract the juice.

Sweeten

Add 2 pounds of sugar for every gallon of 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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Gooseberries: Provide the fruit, acidity and flavour that form the base of the wine.
Sugar: Feeds the yeast during fermentation and sets the sweetness and alcohol level of 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.