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RAISIN WINE
9 Ib. muscatel raisins
1 1/2 lb. demerara sugar
1 gallon water
Campden tablet
Sherry yeast
Chop up the raisins and pour boiling water on to them
and when; cool add a Campden tablet. Next day add the fermenting sherry
yeast and ferment on the pulp for a week. Then strain and press the
raisins and continue the fermentation by adding the demerara sugar in
small doses in the usual way. Make sure that the jar is never quite full
of wine so that there is some headroom, and use a plug of cotton wool
rather than a fermentation lock. Continue the fermentation as long as
possible, then rack and mature in jars, not quite full and plugged with
cotton wool. It is sometimes a useful tip to use a bored cork, the hole
of which is plugged with cotton wool. In due course this makes an
extremely attractive dessert wine.
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