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Elder Wine. No. 2

Ingredients

• 1 gallon of water
• 1/4 peck of berries
• 3 1/2 pounds of Lisbon sugar
• yest
• raisins
• brandy
• cloves

Instructions

Steep the berries in water forty hours; after boiling a quarter of an hour, strain the liquor from the fruit, and boil it with the sugar till the scum ceases to rise. Work it in a tub like other wines, with a small quantity of yest. After some weeks, add a few raisins, a small quantity of brandy, and some cloves. The above makes a sweet mellow wine, but does not taste strong of the elder.

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Source

The Lady's Own Cookery Book (1844).