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Elder-flower Wine

Ingredients

• 6 gallons of water
• 18 pounds of lump-sugar
• 1/4 peck of elder-flowers
• juice and rinds of 6 lemons pared very thin
• 6 pounds of raisins
• 3 or 4 spoonfuls of yest
• piece of bread well toasted

Instructions

To the water put the lump-sugar; boil it half an hour, skimming it all the time. Put into a cask the elder-flowers picked clean from the stalks, the juice and rinds of the lemons, and the raisins. When the water and sugar is about milk warm, pour it into the cask upon these ingredients; spread the yest upon the bread, and put it into the cask; stir it up for three or four days only; when it has done working, bung it up, and in six or eight months it will be fit for bottling.

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Source

The Lady's Own Cookery Book (1844).