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Wine Making - Elderberry Wine Recipe
Recipe for Elderberry Wine. Use the lower amount of sugar for a medium dry wine and the higher sugar for a medium sweet.
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Elderberry Wine Recipe
Ingredients:
- 2½ lb elderberries
- Campden tablets
- 2¾ or 3 lb sugar
- Wine yeast
- Nutrient
- Water
Method:
- Strip the elderberries from the stalks and wash well.
- Put into a fermenting bin and crush. Pour on 4 pints of water. Add 1 campden tablet, crushed and dissolved in a little warm water.
- Boil half of the sugar in 2 pints of water for 2 or 3 minutes and, when cool, mix into the pulp.
- Add the yeast and nutrient and cover and allow to ferment for 5 days, stirring daily.
- Strain and press and return to a clean fermenting bin.
- Boil the rest of the sugar in 1 pint of water for 2 or 3 minutes and, when cool, add to the rest.
- Cover again and leave for 3 or 4 days.
- Pour carefully into a gallon jar, leaving as much deposit behind as possible.
- Fill up the jar with cooled, boiled water to where the neck begins.
- Fit a fementation lock and leave until fermentation has finished.
- Rack, as necessary, and add 1 Campden tablet after the first racking.
- Syphon into bottles.
Makes 1 gallon of wine.
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