Name: Gooseberry Wine to Resemble Champagne
Ingredients: 40 pounds of gooseberries; cream of tartar (or crude tartar)

Gooseberry Wine to Resemble Champagne

Ingredients

40 pounds of gooseberries
cream of tartar (or crude tartar)

Directions

Select gooseberries that are full grown but not ripe, preferably those with less flavor when ripe.
Remove unsound or bruised fruit and any remaining blossoms or fruit-stalks.
Place the cleaned gooseberries in a 15 to 20-gallon tub.
Bruise the gooseberries to release their juices.
Add cream of tartar to promote fermentation.

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.