Rowan Wine

Ingredients

• 1 lb. of best cane loaf sugar
• rowan berries

Method

1. 1

   Gather rowan berries on a dry day and place them in a mash tub with boiling water to cover.

2. 2

   Let stand for three days, then draw off the liquid without disturbing the crust.

3. 3

   Add 1 lb. of sugar for each gallon of rowan liquor, stir until dissolved, and pour into a cask.

4. 4

   Keep the cask filled until it ceases to work, then bung tightly and let stand for six months.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "Queen" cookery books: Pickles and Preserves (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Rowan Wine. — Gather the rowan berries when they are ripe, on a dry day, and put them into the mash tub with just enough boiling water to cover them. Let it all stand, covered, for three days, then draw off the liquid, without disturbing the crust, into a pan, and add to it lib. of best cane loaf sugar

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