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Wild Cherry Wine Recipe
Ingredients:
- About 16 cups of wild cherries or either mazzard or rum cherries
(rinsed with cold water)
- 1/4 teaspoon wine yeast
- 1 gallon boiling water
- 8 cups sugar
Direction:
- Crush the cherries using your hands or a potato masher.
- Place the crushed cherries in a large food bucket.
- Pour the boiling water over the crushed cherries and cover with
a porous lid.
- Allow to soak for forty-eight hours.
- Strain the liquid using a trainer or a cheesecloth and discard
the small particles.
- Place the liquid in a nonreactive pot, and bring to boil then
remove from heat right away.
- Bring the heated liquid back to the bucket, add the sugar and
stir using a long nonreactive spoon.
- Continue to stir until the sugar is dissolved.
- Sprinkle the yeast on top when the liquid has cooled to
lukewarm.
- Cover with a loose-fitting lid or a nylon stocking.
- Allow to ferment for fourteen days.
- Strain the liquid into a clean glass container and cover
appropriately.
- The wine will be ready for bottling in six to twelve months.
From:
www.winerecipes.org.uk
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