Gooseberry Wine

Ingredients

• Put 3 lbs. of loaf-sugar into one gallon of water
• put in six quarts of ripe gooseberries
• Steep half an ounce of isinglass
• in one pint of brandy
• the whites of four eggs

Method

1. 1

   Put 3 lbs. of loaf-sugar into one gallon of water; boil and skim it.

2. 2

   When nearly cold, add six quarts of ripe gooseberries that have been well mashed.

3. 3

   Let it stand for two days, stirring frequently.

4. 4

   Steep half an ounce of isinglass in one pint of brandy for two days; then beat it with the whites of four eggs until frothy, and add to the wine.

5. 5

   Stir and strain through a flannel bag into a cask or jug; fasten to exclude air; let stand six months, and bottle tightly, adding two or three raisins to each bottle.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Gooseberry Wine. — Put 3 lbs. of loaf-sugar into one gallon of water ; boil and skim it. When it is nearly cold, put in six quarts of ripe goose- berries that have been well mashed. Let it stand two days, stirring it frequently. Steep half an ounce of isinglass in one pint of brandy for two days ; then beat it with the whites of four eggs

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