BEETROOT WINE
In answer to a correspondent's request, the following recipe for beetroot wine has been sent in:— Wash 101b beetroot without breaking skin and boil till tender. When cool, remove skin and.slice; put in a large bowl, add the thinly-cut rinds of an orange and lemon, and 4 ounces raisins cut in half. Boil 3 gallons water and 81b loaf sugar for forty-five minutes; pour this over the beetroot and stir in well. When just lukewarm stir in three tablespoons of brewerls yeast. Lot stand for three days, then strain into a cask, adding 2 ounces sugar candy and half pint brandy. Insert the bung and leave for a month. Then strain into a clean cask and add Joz isinglass dissolved in hot water and 2oz blanched bitter almonds chopped roughly. Let wine stand for eighteen months before bottling. Then keep for a year in the bottles before using.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 67, 20 March 1937, Page 19
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150BEETROOT WINE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 67, 20 March 1937, Page 19
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