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Home Made Wines

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Home Made Wines

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix fruit, sugar, vegetable extract, malic acid, and water in a container.

  2. Allow the mixture to ferment for about a day until bubbling begins.

  3. For sweet wine, close the cask when fermentation noise almost stops.

  4. For dry wine, prepare a barrel treated with sulfur and transfer the wine into it.

  5. Clear the wine with isinglass and bottle it after about ten weeks.

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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