Florida Orange Wine

Ingredients

• Measure juice and allow for each gallon of juice
• 3 pounds of granulated sugar
• 1-3 of a gallon of cold water
• the white and shell of 1 egg

Method

1. 1

   Put water on with the sugar, egg, and crushed shell, stir every few minutes until egg begins to harden; boil until syrup looks clear.

2. 2

   Strain the syrup and pour it upon the orange rind and leave 12 hours.

3. 3

   Strain it the second day and put into a tight cask; for 10 gallons wine use 1 small cake of compressed yeast.

4. 4

   Leave unstopped until fermentation ceases, which is known by the hissing sound having stopped.

5. 5

   Put in the bung and leave for 9 months, then add 1 tumbler of brandy to each gallon of the wine, bottle and leave for 60 days.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 185. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Florida Orange Wine. Select perfect oranges and wipe with a wet cloth, remove the yellow rind in thin pieces and squeeze out the juice and strain through a fine sieve. Measure juice and allow for each gallon of juice 3 pounds of granulated sugar, 1-3 of a gallon of cold water, the white and shell of 1 egg

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