TIGGYWINKLE
03-09-2008, 09:08 PM
Simple Apple Wine. Tastes like a dessert white wine.
3 Lbs Apples - cookers or eaters. 12 pints of water. 2lbs sugar. Wash apples, and just cut up as they are. Place in a bucket with the water.Add a lemon cut in 4.andd a small piece of root ginger if liked. Cover and leave for a week, stirring twice a day. It will turn a dirty off white colour. After a week drain, and discard the apples. Add suger and stir to dissolve. Strain into plastic bottles with screw tops.Leave in a cool place for 1 month at least. Be careful opening bottles, as it fizzes. Do it over the sink.
Blackberry Gin. 1 pint of gin to 1 1/4 lbs blackberries. Crush fruit lightly. Pour into large jar, and stir in 4 1/2 oz granulated sugar.Pour in the gin, and seal the jar tightly. Shake the jar every day for a month. Leave to stand for another 2 months, and then filter into bottles. Lovely Christmas present, Have as liquor or with soda as a tall drink.
3 Lbs Apples - cookers or eaters. 12 pints of water. 2lbs sugar. Wash apples, and just cut up as they are. Place in a bucket with the water.Add a lemon cut in 4.andd a small piece of root ginger if liked. Cover and leave for a week, stirring twice a day. It will turn a dirty off white colour. After a week drain, and discard the apples. Add suger and stir to dissolve. Strain into plastic bottles with screw tops.Leave in a cool place for 1 month at least. Be careful opening bottles, as it fizzes. Do it over the sink.
Blackberry Gin. 1 pint of gin to 1 1/4 lbs blackberries. Crush fruit lightly. Pour into large jar, and stir in 4 1/2 oz granulated sugar.Pour in the gin, and seal the jar tightly. Shake the jar every day for a month. Leave to stand for another 2 months, and then filter into bottles. Lovely Christmas present, Have as liquor or with soda as a tall drink.