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Blackberry Wine

A beverage made by steeping blackberries in boiling water, draining, sweetening with sugar, and aging.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine 4 quarts of blackberries with 1 quart of boiling water in a stone jar.

  2. Let the mixture stand for 24 hours.

  3. Drain the liquid from the fruit.

Sweeten and age

  1. Add 1½ pounds of sugar to the liquid and stir until dissolved.

  2. Bottle the mixture and let it age for 3 months before use.

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 fruit flavor, color and the base liquid for the wine.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and provides the fuel that yeast turns into alcohol during fermentation.

“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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