Gooseberry Wine No 1 Recipe
To every pound of white amber gooseberries, when heads and tails are
picked off and well bruised in a mortar, add a quart of spring water,
which must be previously boiled. Let it stand till it is cold before it
is put to the fruit. Let them steep three days, stirring them twice a
day; strain and press them through a sieve into a barrel, and to every
gallon of liquor put three pounds of loaf-sugar, and to every five
gallons a bottle of brandy. Hang a small bag of isinglass in the barrel;
bung it close, and, in six months, if the sweetness is sufficiently gone
off, bottle it, and rosin the corks well over the top. The fruit must be
fall grown, but quite green.
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