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ELDER FLOWER WINE
Photo: Ernest Porzi

ELDER FLOWER WINE

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

656
Calories
20g
Protein
7g
Fat
128g
Carbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 5 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Grape 1/2 cup (76g) 62
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Water not in our table 0
Liquor not in our table 0

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

  • one gallon of water
  • three pounds of while sugar
  • six gallons of the liquor the juice of six lemons
  • five pounds of the best raisins
  • an ounce of melted isinglass
  • six lemons
  • five table-spoonfuls of good yeast stirred in very hard
  • six whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth

Directions

1

Take the flowers or blossoms of the elder tree, and strip them from the stalks. To every quart of flowers allow one gallon of water, and three pounds of while sugar. Boil and skim the sugar and water, and then pour it hot on the flowers. When cool, mix in with it some lemon juice and some yeast; allowing to six gallons of the liquor the juice of six lemons, and four or five table-spoonfuls of good yeast stirred in very hard. Let it ferment for three days in a tub covered with a double blanket. Then strain the wine through a sieve, (add six whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth, or an ounce of melted isinglass,) and put it into a cask, in the bottom of which you have laid four or five pounds of the best raisins, stoned. Stop the cask closely, and in six months the wine will be fit to bottle. It will much resemble Frontiniac, the elder flowers imparting to it a very pleasant taste.

By Eliza Leslie · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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