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Blackberry Wine

A beverage made by bruising blackberries, steeping in boiling water, adding sugar, and storing.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Steep the fruit

  1. Bruise the blackberries and combine with boiling water in a container.

  2. Let the mixture stand until the next day.

  3. Strain the mixture through a sieve.

Sweeten and cask

  1. Add ¾ pound of sugar to the liquid and stir until dissolved.

  2. 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 flavour and deep colour of the wine.
Sugar
Provides sweetness and the sugars that yeast converts into alcohol.

“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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