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
[margin: fo the 43]
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
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.