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Elder Wine

A sweet wine made from elder berries and sugar, boiled and cooled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Elder Wine

Elder Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Gather ripe elder berries.

  2. Place them in a stone jar or heat them in a kettle of boiling water until the jar is hot.

  3. Strain berries through a fine cloth, wringing to extract juice into a clean kettle.

Make the wine base

  1. Add 1 pound of fine Lisbon sugar to every quart of juice and bring to a boil, skimming off foam.

  2. Once clear, pour mixture into a jar, let it cool, cover tightly, and store until ready to use for raisin wine.

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

Elder juice
Provides the main liquid and the fruit flavour of the wine.
Lisbon sugar
Sweetens the juice and feeds fermentation later on.

“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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