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Damson Wine

A wine made by steeping damsons in boiling water, adding sugar, and aging for a year.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Damson Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Steep the fruit

  1. Pour boiling water over damsons in a tub or vessel.

  2. Let it stand for 4 to 5 days, stirring well each day.

Strain and sweeten

  1. Strain the mixture and add 3.5 pounds of granulated sugar for each gallon of juice.

  2. Dissolve the sugar and transfer everything into a cask.

Age and bottle

  1. Bottle and seal after 12 months.

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

Damsons
Provide the fruit flavour, colour and acidity that give the wine its character.
Granulated sugar
Adds sweetness and feeds the yeast that turns the sugar into 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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