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Very Good Elderberry Wine

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Very Good Elderberry Wine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Strip the berries from the stalks and measure them into a large tub or earthen pan.

  2. Pour 2 gallons of boiling water over the berries and press them down into the liquid.

  3. Cover the mixture and let it sit until the next day.

  4. Strain the juice from the fruit through a sieve or cloth.

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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