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Blackberry Wine

A sweetened blackberry beverage made by crushing, cooking, straining, and boiling, then sealed in jars.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Crush the blackberries well.

  2. Measure the crushed berries and water, then cook them together.

  3. Strain the mixture as you would for jelly.

Finish and seal

  1. Sweeten to taste, then boil again.

  2. Seal in pine economy jars.

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 flavour, colour and natural sugars that the wine is built on.
Sugar
Sweetens the finished drink and balances the berries' tartness.

“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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