Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: British Champagne
Karen The name British Champagne is a paradox, of course, because real champagne only comes from a certain area of France and is made to to exacting standards. Apparently this did…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines:Orange Wine with Raisins
Although wines known today as orange wines have nothing of the citrus fruit in them, my paternal grandmother, Helen S. Wright, included several recipes in her book on wine making…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Orange Wine
According to Wikipedia, orange wine is a type of wine made from white wine grapes which are fermented with their skins. Since the skins contain color pigment, phenols, and tannins…
Substituting Fruits and Vegetables For Fat in Baking
at is an important ingredient in baking; it helps make baked goods tender but sugar can do the same thing although in a different way. Tenderness is greatly influenced by…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine: Molasses Beer
The use of molasses to brew beer goes back to colonial times when a source of sugar to feed the yeast was hard to find. Squash, bran, maize, parsnips, and…
Old Time Recipes for Homemade Wine: Small White Mead
Mead is a beverage with an alcohol content between 4-20% using a variety of yeasts and with a taste that some describe as “wine with a kick’ but can also…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Malt Wine, or English Sherry
My paternal grandmother, Helen S. Wright included in her book Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines, a recipe for something she called “malt wine, or English sherry”. The name…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Lemon Wine
Although not common, lemon wine does have its enthusiasts and the Internet has at least several recipes for making it. My paternal grandmother, Helen S. Wright, in her book Old…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine: Hop Beer
My paternal grandmother, Helen S. Wright, included the recipes for several beers including this on in her book Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine. Although I don’t know if…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine: Juniper-Berry Wine
Well known to gin drinkers, juniper berries are not true berries but the cones of Juniperus communis and made up of fleshy scales. They have a distinctive flavor and are…