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VERY GOOD ELDERBERRY WINE

6 ingredients 1 steps gutenberg
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

58
Calories
0g
Protein
0g
Fat
14g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 3 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Clove 1 tsp ground (2g) 7
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

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

Directions

1

Strip the berries, which should be ripe and fresh, and gathered on a dry day, 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, for every gallon, and boil it twenty minutes, keeping it thoroughly skimmed. Put it, when something more than milk-warm, into a perfectly dry and sweet cask (or if but a _very_ small quantity of wine be made, into large stone bottles, which answer for the purpose quite well), fill this entirely, and pour very gently into the bung hole a _large_ spoonful of new yeast mixed with a very small quantity of the wine.

By Eliza Acton · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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