HOME-MADE WINES ARE EASY TO MAKE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 55, 20 March 1937, Page 13

HOME-MADE WINES ARE EASY TO MAKE

Many housewives like to have homemade wines in their homes and with a plentiful supply of grapes and also of blackberries two very delicious wines may be easily made. Here are the reeipes: — Grape Wine. Gather the grapes ripe, throwing away any bad ones and then place atalks and all in a tub or trough and crush them well with a heavy piece of wood. Next throw a cloth over the tub and let stand for about a week, stirrmg every three or four days, by whieh time a good crust of fermentation, skins etc., will have formed on the surface and the liquor will appear moderately clear. Draw ofE the liquor carefully, so as to leave all the skins and other matter behind, and pour this liquor into a cask, filling to .the bungbole, but keeping some back for filling purposes. Do not close the bunghole for a week but lightly cover it with a eloth, and liil up the cask constantly as it runs over. If a Bweet wine is desired, at the end of this week the bunghole may be closed very securely and the wine set aside to mature, for perhaps a year. Otherwise, if a dry wine is wanted_, put the bung in lightly and fill up the cask about once a week from what has been kept back, till the cask shows no further sign of running over. Then put the bung m very tightly, and let the cask stand six months or a year before bottling. Blackberry Wine Take one gallon of ripe berries and place them in a crock and bruise the fruit, uot too vigorously, with a clean wooden spoon, then add one quart of boihng water, one inch of stick cinnamon and a small piece of root ginger (these last to be tied in a iuuslin bag), and then cover the crock and let it, stand 2-1 hours, stirring occasionally. Then strain oif the liquid, add 21bs. of refined sugar, and put it into a jar that can be tightly corked for three months. In faet the longer you keep it the better it is.