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CRAB-APPLE WINE
6 to 8 Ib. fleshy, ripe crab-apples. (The ones with the cream and red
skins are the best, they grow to the size of a bantam's egg)
2 1/4 Ib. sugar
1 gallon water
Campden tablet
Pectozyme
8 oz, raisins or sultanas
Nutrient
Champagne or Sauterne yeast
Wash any dirt off the apples, removing any bad
portions as may be necessary, and take off the stalks. Prepare a gallon
of cold water in which you have dissolved a Campden tablet. Crush the
apples by putting them a few at a time in a plastic bag and hitting them
with a piece of wood such as a rolling pin or mallet and drop them into
the water. Add a teaspoonful of pectozyme, cover and soak for three
days, stirring each day. Then strain and press until all the juice has
been extracted, add the sugar and chopped raisins, the nutrient and the
yeast. Ferment for another week, then strain and press the raisins and
continue the fermentation until completion. This wine needs at least
eighteen months to mature and is best served cool and as a medium-sweet
wine.
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