Very Good Elderberry Wine

Ingredients

• three of berries
• two gallons to three of berries
• three pounds of sugar
• three-quarters of an ounce of cloves
• one ounce of ginger

Method

1. 1

   Strip berries from stalks, pour boiling water over them, press down, and cover.

2. 2

   Strain juice the next day, mix with sugar, cloves, and ginger, boil for twenty minutes, and put into a clean cask with yeast.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 20 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 505. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

VERY GOOD ELDERBERRY WINE. Strip the berries, which should be ripe and fresh, and gathered on a dry dajq clean from the stalks, and measure them into a tub or large earthen pan. Pour boiling water on them, in the proportion of two gallons to three of berries, press them down into the liquor, cover them closely, and let them remain until the following day; then strain the juice from the fruit through a sieve or cloth, and, when this is done, squeeze from the berries the greater part of the remaining juice ; mix it with that which was first poured off, measure the whole, add to it three pounds of sugar, three-quarters of an ounce of cloves, and one ounce of ginger

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