1896 Fancy Drinks and Popular Beverages by the Only William

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The raisin wine, which is used as so-called Easter wine during the Passover in all orthodox Hebrew families, is easily made as follows: A fortnight before the feast, select three pounds of fine raisins; cut them in small pieces and remove the seeds; put them with one pound of sugar in a jug and pour over six or seven quarts of cold water; place the vessel, covered, on or behind the hearth; skim after three or four days; filter through a funnel lined with linen or blotting-paper into bottles; add to each bottle some stick cinnamon, lemon-peel, and cloves; cork well and put them in the cellar, until you use them. Ripe raspberries are mashed with a wooden spoon and put into a stone jar; add one quart of cold water to each quart of berries. The following day you decant the fluid, press the ber– ries through a cloth, add one pound of sugar to every quart of wine; fill the wine into a cask and stir daily; when fermentation is done, add one quart of white wine to every four quarts of raspberry wine; bung the barrel, let it lie three months, bottle the wine and it is ready for use. Throw twenty quarts of ripe raspberries into a tub, pour twenty quarts of boiling water over them, cover the tub well and let it stand until the following day; skim, press the berries through a hair-sieve and let the fluid stand again from four to five hours. Decant it into a barrel, add gradually twelve pounds of pulverized sugar, mix one quart of the fluid with three table– spoonfuls of very fresh ale yeast and mix this with the rest of the wine; cover the bung-hole with a piece of paper and a brickstone and let the wine ferment. As soon as the fermentation is over, bung the barrel well, and after four weeks decant the wine into 51li. lllasµbcrq~ llline. 515. QfoglislJ ll\aspberry llline.