Raisin Wine

Ingredients

• two pounds of raisins
• a lemon
• a pound of white sugar
• about two gallons of boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Chop raisins and lemon, mix with sugar and boiling water in a jar, stir daily for 6-8 days, strain, and bottle.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including .. (1902) by Marion Harland, page 98. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a lemon sliced, and a teaspoonful of orange-flower water; let it remain for two or three hours. Put eighteen ounces of sugar into another basin, cover it with a cloth, through which pour the strawberry -juice; after as much has run through as will, gather up the cloth, and squeeze out as much juice as possible from it; when the Mother's Coos Book. 285 sugar is all dissolved, strain it again; set the vessel con- taining it on ice, until ready to serve. RASPBERRY VINEGAR. To four quarts red raspberries, put enongh vinegar to cover, and let them stand twenty-four hours; scald and strain it; add a pound of sugar to one pint of juice; boil it twenty minutes, and bottle; it is then ready for use and willjteep years. To one glass of water add a great spoon- ful. It is much relished by the sick. Very nice. LEMONADE. Take half a pound of loaf-sugar and reduce it to a syrup with one pint of water; add .the rind of five lemons and let stand an hour; remove the rinds and add the strained juice of the lemons; add one bottla<of " ApolUnaris" water, and a block of ice in centre of bowl. Feel one lemon and cat it np into thin slices, divide each shoe in two, and put in lemonade. Claret or fine cordials may be added if desired. Serve with a piece of lemon in each glass. EGG-NOG. Whip the whites and yolks of six eggs into a stiff cream, adding a half cupful of sugar. Pour into a quart of rich milk, adding a half pint of good brandy, and a little flavor- ing of nutmeg. Stir up and thoroughly ™i» the ingredi- ents, and add the whites of three additional eggs well whipped. RAISIN WINE. Take two pounds of raisins, seed and chop them, a, lemon, a pound of white sugar

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