Elderberry Wine

Ingredients

• four and a half gallons of freshly boiled and boiling water
• 31b. of (cane) brown sugar
• 2oz. of gelatine
• a quart of elderflower water
• a gill of mock or real kirschwasser

Method

1. 1

   Crush the elderberries and bilberries, add to a mash tub, pour boiling water, cover, and let stand for 4-5 days.

2. 2

   Draw off the liquor carefully, mix in sugar, and pour into a cask.

3. 3

   Allow fermentation for 7-8 days, adding soaked gelatine when fermentation stops.

4. 4

   Let it stand for 5-6 months, then add elderflower water and kirschwasser.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "Queen" cookery books: Pickles and Preserves (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

four and a half gallons of freshly boiled and boiling water, cover with a blanket or folded cloth, to keep out the dust, and let it stand four or five days, by which time it will have formed a thick crust on the top. (It will do this sooner if the weather is close.) Now draw off the liquor very carefully by means of 74 PICKLES AND PRESERVES. a little wooden tap, wlticli should have been fixed close to the bottom of the tub, being very particular not to break the crust ; if there is no tap, this crust must be skimmed off, but this is very troublesome, as every scrap must be removed, or it will hopelessly cloud the wine. Now for each gallon of liquid allow 31b. of (cane) brown sugar, mix it well in, and pour the result into a cask, keeping back a gallon of the liquid to add later on. It will take seven to eight days to finish the fermentation, and this surplus liquor may be added in gradually during this process. Meanwhile, soak 2oz. of gelatine in a pint of the liquid, and then dissolve it over the fire, and pour this solution to the wine when the fermentation stops ; then bung it down closely, and let it stand for five or six months. When ready add to it a quart of elderflower water and a gill of mock or real kirschwasser

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