Frontiniac Wine

Ingredients

• six gallons of water
• twelve pounds of white sugar
• six pounds of raisins of the sun cut small
• half a peck of the flowers of elder
• six spoonfuls of syrup of lemons
• four spoonfuls of ale-yeast

Method

1. 1

   Boil water, sugar, and raisins together for an hour.

2. 2

   Add elder flowers when the mixture is almost cold.

3. 3

   The next day, add syrup of lemons and ale-yeast.

4. 4

   After two days, transfer to a suitable vessel and let it stand for two months before bottling.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine (1886) by William Carew Hazlitt, page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Frontiniac Wine : — Take six gal- lons of water and twelve pounds of white sugar, and six pounds of raisins of the sun cut small ; boil these together an hour ; then take of the flowers of elder, when they are falling and will shake off, the quantity of half a peck ; put them in the liquor when ’tis almost cold, the Early Receipts 14 7 next day put in six spoonfuls of syrup of lemons, and four spoonfuls of ale-yeast

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