To Make Elder Wine
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- Title
- To Make Elder Wine
- Date
- 1694/1795
- Description
- This describes a process of making wine with (probably Malagousia) grapes, mixed with elderberry juice, and left to process for 6-8 weeks.
- Transcript
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Rx 20: pound of Malegoe Rasins pick them rub them & Chop them put them in to a Tub with 20: quarts of water and let them stand ten dayes stiring them up twice or thrice a day: then strane of the liquere from the frenth verey hard. & put to it six pintes of the joyce of Elder bereys Cleare taken not put in till it be colde Tun it up with the Rasen liquer let the vesell stand in an uper roome six weeks or two mounths till the drink be cleare then botele it up - Subject
- See all items with this valuegrapes
- See all items with this valuewater
- See all items with this valueberries (fruits)
- See all items with this valuewine making
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- Contributor
- Abu-Bader, Nagham
- Le, Vincent
- Salahuddin, Shafiya
- Grimm, Stephanie
- Source
- Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
- Publisher
- George Mason University Libraries
- Rights
- Public domain. There are no known restrictions.