Birch Wine

Ingredients

• three pounds of sugar
• one of raisins
• an ounce of almonds
• each gallon of sap

Method

1. 1

   Boil all ingredients together for half an hour and skim.

2. 2

   Put it into a tub with fresh yeast as soon as it has cooled.

3. 3

   After four or five days of fermentation, strain off into a cask.

4. 4

   Tie up some almonds in a muslin bag and add them to the wine until fermentation is complete, then remove and close the cask for four or five months.

5. 5

   Rack off and bottle for use.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 242. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Birch Wine. — This wine is sometimes made simply by boiling the sap of the birch- tree with sugar and adding a little lemon-peel. Where other ingredients are added, the quantity of sugar is lessened. Allow throe pounds of sugar, one of raisins, and an ounce of ahnonds, to each gallon of sap

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