Name: Uaisin Wine
Ingredients: 8 pounds raisins, cleaned and picked from their stalks; 1 gallon spring water

Uaisin Wine

Ingredients

8 pounds raisins, cleaned and picked from their stalks
1 gallon spring water

Directions

Prepare

Chop the raisins and place them in a tub.
Pour warm spring water over the raisins, measuring the quantity as you pour.

Ferment

Let the mixture stand in a cool place for two weeks, stirring well three to four times each day with a mashing staff.
Strain the mixture, pressing the fruit dry, and pour the liquid into a wine cask.
After fermentation is complete, seal the cask for four months.

Rack and store

Rack the wine, filter the dregs through a flannel bag, and return it to the barrel.
Store the wine for one year.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Raisins: Provide the sugar and fruit flavour that fermentation turns into alcohol.
Spring water: Dissolves the raisin sugars and forms the liquid base in which fermentation takes place.

“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.