Blackberry Wine

Ingredients

• 1 gallon ripe blackberries
• 1 gallon boiling water
• 2^2 pounds of loaf sugar
• 1 ounce of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Add blackberries to boiling water and let stand for 24 hours.

2. 2

   Strain without pressure, add sugar, and put in a demijohn with thin muslin cloth tied over the mouth.

3. 3

   Let stand in a cool place for 2 months, then strain through flannel, add sugar to clear it, bottle, and it is ready for use in 3 weeks.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Edwardsville cook book (1906), page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BLACKBERRY WINE. Mrs. W. H. Hall. To I gallon ripe blackberries add i gallon boiling water Let it stand 24 hours, then strain without pressure, add to every gallon of juice 2^2 pounds of loaf sugar. Put in demi- john with thin muslin cloth tied over the mouth. Let stand in a cool place 2 months. Then strain through flannel, add i ounce of sugar to each gallon to clear it. Bottle, and in 3 weeks it is ready for use. (Very good). BLACKBERRY CORDIAL. Mrs. W. H. Hall. 3 quarts ju ce. 1 pint brandy. 3 pounds sugar. -Spices to suit taste. 1 quart water. Add the brandy just as you remove from stove. RASPBERRY VINEGAR. Mrs. E. Forman. Pick over and rinse a cpiantity of red raspberries ; put in crock and cover with good cider vinegar. Set in cellar and allow to stand 3 or 4 days. Stir once a day. Put into cheese cloth sack and squeeze through, leaving only the seeds. Then bring to a boil and skim. To every pint of juice stir in grad- ually I pint of sugar. Boil a short time, making a thin syrup. Put in bottles and seal or in self sealing jars. WASHING FLUID. Mrs. A. Stubbs. One can Babbit’s Potash, dissolved in 6 quarts boiling water. Let this get cold, then add 5 cents’ worth of salts of tartar and a ^5 cent bottle of ammonia. Soak clothes over night, then rub soap on the parts most 180 THE EDWARDSVILLE COOK BOOK. soiled and boil 20 minutes or half an hour in a boiler of water with a half cup of the liquid and half a cake of soap dissolved in it. Take out of boiler, rinse and hang up. HOME MADE BLUING. Mrs. Abbie L. Greenwood. Dissolve I ounce of soluble blue in i gallon boiling water

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