Apricot Wine

Title:
Apricot Wine

Yield:
1 Servings

Categories:
Penndutch,
Beverages




Ingredients:





     1 lb Apricot, dried


     4 qt Water, warm


 6 1/2 c  Sugar


 2 1/4 c  Brown sugar


 1 1/2 c  Raisins


     1 tb Ginger


     2    Lemon, thinly sliced


     2    Orange, thinly sliced


   1/2 c  Yeast






 Wash the apricots in several waters and then dry them and cut in halves.


 Place in a large crock and pour on the warm water, reserving 1/2 cup of it


 in which to dissolve the yeast cake. Stir in the sugars, fruit, raisins and


 ginger. Then add the dissolved yeast and mix well. Cover with top of the


 crock and let stand for thirty days, stirring the mixture every other day.


 After thirty days strain the mixture and bottle. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch


 Cook Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936.


 


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