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Gooseberry Wine

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

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

Gooseberry Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Bruise the gooseberries with your hands in a tub.

  2. Stir the mixture well and let it stand for a whole day.

  3. Strain the mixture.

Make the must

  1. Add 1 pint of water and 1 lb of dissolved sugar to the gooseberries.

  2. Let it stand for 24 hours longer.

  3. Skim off the scum.

  4. Transfer the liquid to a vessel.

  5. Place the scum in a flannel bag.

  6. Add the drained liquid back to the vessel.

Ferment and age

  1. Allow it to ferment for 2 to 3 days before sealing it tightly.

  2. Let it stand for 4 months before bottling.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Gooseberries
Provide the fruit, juice and natural flavour that the wine is built on.
Sugar
Feeds the yeast during fermentation, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide.

“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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