Damson and Sloe Wine

Ingredients

• a gallon of sound ripe fruit
• the same measure of boiling water
• four and a half pounds of sugar

Method

1. 1

   To each gallon of sound ripe fruit add the same measure of boiling water, cover, and set it in a warm room for five or six days, stirring it three or four times a day; then strain the liquor, and to each gallon of wine add four and a half pounds of sugar.

2. 2

   When the sugar is dissolved, pour it into a cask, and when fermentation has ceased bung it up, and let it remain for six or eight months, when it may be bottled off.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 228. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

h gallon of sound ripe fruit add the same measure of boiling water, cover, and set it in a warm room for five or six days, stirring it three or four times a day ; then strain the liquor, and to each gallon of wine add four and a half pounds of sugar

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