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Recipe for Elderberry Wine and Gooseberry Wine

through a coarse cloth, wringing
the berries, put the juice into
a clean kettle- to every quart
of juice put a pound of fine
Lisbon sugar, let it boil, and skim
it well- When clear and fine pour
it into a jar, when cold covered
close and keep it till you make
raisin wine- then when you tun
your wine, to every gallon:
of wine put half a pint of the elder syrup,
and it will prove excellent liquor- It is customary
to drink elder wine hot.

Gooseberry Wine
¼ pound lb of sugar 4 pound lb of Gooseberries brui
sed as small as possible, must be
allowed to each quart of water- when
they have stood 24 hours in the wa
ter let them be pressed & the liquor

Charlotte Starkie

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Gillespie Family

1782 to 1808

Gillespie Family

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through a coarse cloth, wringing the berries, & put the juice into a clean kettle- to every quart of juice put a pound of fine Lisbon sugar, let it boil, and skim it well- When clear and fine pour it into a jar, when cold covered close and keep it till you make raisin wine- then when you tun your wine, to every gall of wine put half a pint of the elder syrup, and it will prove excellent liquor- It is customary to drink elder wine hot.

Gooseberry Wine¼ lb of sugar 4 lb of Gooseberries bruised as small as possible, must be allowed to each q[uar]t of water- when they have stood 24 hours in the water let them be pressed & the liquor

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