Ingredients
- one gallon of cold water
- two pounds of brown sugar
Directions
1
Take ripe blackberries, mash and press them, strain off the juice, and let it stand thirty-six hours to ferment; skim off what rises. To every gallon of strained and fermented juice add one gallon of cold water, and two pounds of brown sugar. Let it stand in open vessels for twenty-four hours, then skim,v strain, and put the juice in a cask and close the bung tight. Let it stand in the cask until March, when the wine must be drawn off and bottled.
By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson." ·
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