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Blackberry Wine

A fermented beverage made from blackberries, water, and sugar.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the wine

  1. Combine blackberries and boiling water in a stone jar.

  2. Let it stand for 24 hours.

  3. Drain the liquid from the fruit.

  4. Add sugar and stir until dissolved.

  5. Bottle the mixture.

Age

  1. Allow to age for 3 months before using.

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

Blackberries
Provide the main fruit flavour, colour and natural sugars for the wine.
Sugar
Feeds the fermentation and adds sweetness to the finished wine.

The step that matters

Let it stand for 24 hours. The fruit must soak long enough for the juice to be extracted and for the wild yeasts on the skins to begin fermenting, which sets up the 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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