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Blackberry Wine

A simple blackberry wine made by infusing mashed blackberries with boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Blackberry Wine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mash the blackberries.

  2. Pour 1 quart of boiling water over each gallon of mashed blackberries.

  3. Let the mixture stand to infuse.

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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What each ingredient does

Blackberries
Provide the main fruit flavour, colour and sugars for the wine base.

“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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