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Currant Wine

From Consult me, 1902

Serves 20

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 184. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CURRANT WINE. — Gather the currants when ripe, strip them, and squeeze out the juice ; to one gallon of the juice put two gallons of cold water and two spoonfuls of yeast ; let it fer- ment two days ; strain through a hair sieve ; and to every gallon of liquor add 3 lbs. of loaf-sugar, stir it well together, put it in a good cask ; to every 10 gallons of wine put one quart of brandy ; close well up and let it stand four months, then bottle it ; a few rasp- berrie

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