Catawba Wine

Ingredients

• Mash the grapes
• add 2 quarts of water
• add 2 pounds of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Mash the grapes in a large bowl and let stand for 3 or 4 days, then squeeze juice out of grapes.

2. 2

   Add 2 quarts of water and 2 pounds of sugar.

3. 3

   Let it all thoroughly ferment.

4. 4

   After it is through fermenting, put a syphon in the barrel and seal it.

5. 5

   Let the syphon remain in the barrel for 3 or 4 months, then bottle and seal tight.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Colonial recipes, from old Virginia and Maryland manors (1907) by Maude A. Bomberger, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Catawba wine, and also some recipes for punch. Mr. Hunter is the great-great-nephew of General Otho Holland Williams, a distinguished gentleman of Colonial days, who was the founder of Williams' Port, and a gallant officer of the Revolutionary army. A magnificent monu- ment was erected to his memory in 1905, by his country in recognition of his valuable serv- ices rendered to it, Congress having made a handsome appropriation for that purpose. CATAWBA WINE This song of mine Is a Song of the Vine, To be sung by the glowing embers j Of wayside inns, When the rain begins To darken the drear Novembers. While pure as a spring Is the wine I sing, And to praise it, one needs but name it ; For Catawba wine Has need of no sign, No tavern-bush to proclaim it. — Longfellow. 84 Williams' Port 8$ CATAWBA WINE {Mr. O. H. W. Hunter) Mash the grapes in a large bowl and let stand for 3 or 4 days, then squeeze juice out of grapes, and to 2 quarts of juice add 2 quarts of water and 2 pounds of sugar

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