Imitation Malmsey Wine

Ingredients

• 1.5galls. of cold spring water
• 3.5galls. of ale
• 27lb. of sugar
• 2lb. of Malaga raisins
• 1 pint of brandy
• 1oz. of gelatine
• 1 pint of sweet-wort
• 1lb. of blanched and chopped bitter almonds
• 1oz. of dissolved isinglass
• 1gall. of brandy

Method

1. 1

   Mix water with ale and sugar, ferment for seven weeks.

2. 2

   Chop raisins and almonds, add to a bottle with brandy.

3. 3

   After fermentation, add brandy and raisins to cask, leave for 6-7 months, then bottle with gelatine.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 20 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 451. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Imitation Malmsey Wine. — (1) Mix Ipgalls. of cold spring water with 3Jgalls. of ale, taken from the vat whilst fer- menting ; add 271b. of sugar, and stir well until the sugar is dissolved ; turn it into a cask, set it in a warm place, and leave for about seven weeks, by which time it should have fermented. Finely chop 21b. of Malaga raisins, mix with them ilb. of blanched and chopped bitter almonds, put them into a wide-mouthed bottle, and pour in 1 pint of brandy. When the fermentation in the cask has ceased, pour in the brandy and raisins, bung up the cask tightly, and leave it for six or even seven months ; pour off the clear into another cask, add ioz. of gelatine dissolved in a little of the wine, leave it for one month longer, and bottle. (2) Put 15galls. of sweet-wort into a large bowl with j 22jlb. of loaf sugar, set the bowl on the fire, boil the liquor for half-an-hour, and before it is allowed to cool, j pour it into a cask with lib. of chopped Malaga raisins, j loz. of dissolved isinglass, and about 1 breakfast-cupful j of yeast, also ljoz. of hops. Stir well with a wooden j stick for fourteen or eighteen days, then lightly put in the j bung until fermentation ceases ; next add lgall. of brandy

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.