blackberry wine
(from Mary Custis Lee's Recipe)
Ingredients:
Instructions:
Ingredients:
blackberries
3 lbs. sugar
Instructions:
Fill a stone jar with the berries, and just enough water to cover them. Cover the jar with a cloth, let stand four days to ferment, then mash, and strain through a cloth. To every gallon of juice, add three pounds sugar. Put back in the jar, and cover closely. Skim every morning until fermentation. When clear, pour off carefully into bottles, or demijohns, and cork tightly. Put in a cool place. It will be ready for use in two months.
Photo by Steve Daniels, CC-2.0
This recipe, in Mrs. Lee's handwriting, was found in a copy of "Housekeeping in Old Virginia" from 1877. No measurements were given for the ingredients. They were a function of how much blackberry juice you could produce. It's believed the directions are Mrs. Lee's own.
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