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Goosebeeey Wine

A fermented beverage made from bruised gooseberries, water, and sugar.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Bruise the gooseberries in a tub.

  2. Add 1 quart of cold spring water for every 6 pounds of fruit and stir thoroughly.

  3. Let the mixture stand for 20 hours.

  4. Strain the mixture.

Ferment

  1. Dissolve 2 pounds of sugar in the water used.

  2. Let it sit for another day.

  3. Remove the scum carefully.

  4. Keep the removed scum in flannel.

  5. Add the drainings back to the liquid.

  6. Pour the liquid into a cask for fermentation.

  7. Let it ferment for about 60 hours.

  8. Cover it tightly.

  9. Bottle the wine after 4 months.

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

Gooseberries
Provide the main fruit flavor, acidity and the body of the wine.
Sugar
Feeds the fermentation and provides sweetness and alcohol in the finished 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.

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