Strawberry wine makes a delicious flavoring for syllabub, cake, jelly,
etc., and so does gooseberry wine. Dewberries make a prettier and
better wine than blackberries, and have all the medicinal virtues of
the latter.
The clearest wine is made without straining, by the following process:
Take a tub or barrel (a flour-barrel for instance), and make a little
pen of sticks of wood at the bottom. On top of this pen lay an armful
of clean straw. Bore a hole in the side of the tub or barrel as near
the bottom as possible, and set it on a stool or box so as to admit of
setting a vessel underneath it. After mashing the berries intended for
wine, put them on top the straw, and let the juice drain through it
and run through the hole at the side of the tub or barrel into the
vessel set beneath to catch it. Be careful to have this vessel large
enough to avoid its being overrun. Any open stone vessel not used
before for pickle will answer, or a bucket or other wooden vessel may
be used. Let the berries remain on the straw and drain from evening
till the next morning. Some persons make a slight variation on the
process above described, by pouring hot water over the berries after
putting them on the straw. After the draining is over, an inferior
sort of wine may be made by squeezing the berries.
The following process will make wine perfectly clear: To a half-gallon
of wine put two wine-glasses of sweet milk. Stir it into the wine and
pour it all in a transparent half-gallon bottle. Stop it and set it by
for twenty-four hours, at the end of which time the wine will be
beautifully clear, the sediment settling with the milk at the bottom.
Pour off the wine carefully into another bottle, not allowing any of
the sediment or milk to get into the fresh bottle. The same directions
apply to vinegar.
BLACKBERRY WINE.
Fill large stone jars with ripe black or dewberries. Cover them with
water, mash them, and let them stand several hours, or, if freshly
gathered, let them stand all night. Then strain through a thick cloth
and add three pounds white sugar to each gallon of juice. Let the wine
stand a few days in the jars, stirring and skimming each day. Put it
in a demijohn, but do not cork it up for some time.--_Mrs. M. D._
_Blackberry Wine._
Measure the berries and bruise them; to every gallon adding one quart
of boiling water. Let it stand twenty-four hours, stirring
occasionally; then strain off the liquor into a cask, adding two
pounds sugar to every gallon. Cork tight and let it stand till the
following October, when it will be ready for use without further
boiling or straining.
_Blackberry Wine._
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