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Bramble Wine

A fermented beverage made from ripe bramble fruit, honey, and water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Boil the ripe bramble fruit with honey and water.

  2. Skim off the froth.

  3. Pass the mixture through a linen cloth.

Ferment

  1. Leave it to ferment.

  2. Boil it again.

  3. Let it 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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What each ingredient does

Ripe bramble fruit
Provides the main flavour, colour and sugars that the yeast ferments into alcohol.
Honey
Adds fermentable sugar, which feeds the fermentation and adds sweetness.

“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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