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Elder Wine

Elderberry wine made by boiling berries, straining, adding sugar, boiling again, and cooling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 the berries through a fine cloth, wringing them to extract the juice into a clean kettle.

Make the wine

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

  2. Once clear, pour the mixture into a jar, cover it, and let it cool before storing until ready to make 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 berries
Provide the flavour and the juice that forms the base of the wine.
Fine sugar
Adds sweetness and feeds the fermentation that turns the juice into 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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