Florida Orange Wine

Ingredients

• three pounds of granulated sugar
• the white and shell of one egg
• one-third of a gallon of cold water
• each gallon allow three pounds of granulated sugar

Method

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   Wipe the oranges with a wet cloth, peel off the yellow rind very thin, squeeze the oranges, and strain the juice through a hair sieve; measure the juice after it is strained, and for each gallon allow three pounds of granulated sugar, the white and shell of one egg, and one-third of a gallon of cold water; put the sugar, white and shell of the egg crushed small, and the water over the fire, and stir them every two minutes until the egg begins to harden; then boil the sirup until it looks clear under the froth of egg which will form on the surface; strain the sirup, pour it upon the orange-rind, and let it stand overnight; then next add the orange-juice, and again let it stand overnight; strain it the second day, and put it into a tight cask with a small cake of compressed yeast to about ten gallons of wine, and leave the bung out of the cask until the wine ceases to ferment.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 305. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FLORIDA ORANGE WINE. The process for making wine from oranges is not difficult, and can be followed on a small scale, if one desires to try the experiment at home, when oranges are cheap. Wipe the oranges with a wet cloth, peel ofif the yellow rind very thin, squeeze the oranges, and strain the juice through a hair sieve; measure the juice after it is strained, and for each gallon allow three pounds of granulated sugar, the S76 PRACTICAL AMERICAN COOKERY. white and shell of one egg, and one-third of a gallon of cold water

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