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Elderberry Wine

Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire

Wine bottle.

Wine bottle.

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The Recipe

You will need

  • four pints elderberries
  • one gallon cold water
  • three quarter pound sugar for every pint of liquid
  • two ounces yeast spread on toast
  • three ounces cloves (in a muslin bag)

 

Method

  1. Pour the cold water over the berries, bring to the boil and simmer for half an hour before adding the sugar and cloves. 
  2. Boil again for a further fifteen minutes.
  3. Strain the liquid into an earthen pan and allow to cool to blood heat. 
  4. Then add the yeast, spread on a piece of toast. 
  5. Remove the toast on the following day and allow the wine to ferment for five days, removing the surface scum as needed. 
  6. Then pour into bottles and cork loosely. 
  7. The wine will continue to ferment and overflow so that it will be necessary to re-fill the bottles periodically.  (Use the contents of one bottle to re-fill the others.) 
  8. Cork securely in about a month’s time when the fermentation has subsided.

Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire.

 

Comments (3)

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Geoff Davies
26 March 2020, 23:14
float the toast with the yeast on the wine.
after 4 in the Recipe cover earthen pan with tea towels to stop the wine fly from getting to the wine.Mamgu used to dampen the tea towels so thy would mould to the shape of the pan
this is the way Mamgu in Crynant made it 1958. all the best Geoff
Marc Haynes Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales Staff
5 November 2019, 14:27

Hi Geoff,

Thank you for spotting this mistake; we have now corrected it.

Best wishes,

Marc
Digital Team

geoff davies
29 October 2019, 19:38
Ingredients Welsh instructions English?