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Blackberry Wine

A fermented beverage made by boiling blackberries with water and sugar, then cooling, straining, and aging.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Blackberry Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Pour boiling water over blackberries in a large container.

  2. Beat the blackberries with a pestle in the water until well mashed.

  3. Strain the mixture when it has cooled.

Sweeten and bottle

  1. Add 3 pounds of loaf sugar to the blackberry juice and simmer for 30 minutes.

  2. Pour the mixture into bottles and cover the tops with thin muslin or lace, without sealing.

  3. Let it stand until October to develop flavor.

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 flavor, color and natural acidity for the wine.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the juice and provides food for yeast fermentation to produce alcohol.

“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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