Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Birch Wine
Karen The sap of birch trees is probably most familiar in the carbonated drink called birch beer but can also be used to make an alcoholic beer, a wine, and a…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Fine Brandy Shrub
Shrub is a term that can be applied to two different types of drinks The first goes back to 17th century England and refers to a combination of citrus juice…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine: Tomato Wine
Tomato wine has been around from the mid 1800s but has never been very popular. Although it resembles white wine in aroma and taste it is also rather acidic which…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine: White Currant Shrub
Currants may be white, red, or black and of the three, white currants are sweeter and less acidic than red or black. They grow on woody shrubs about 72” tall…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Pea Shell Beer
Making beer from peas goes back to 17th century England when brewers and distillers were using peas and other legumes to make alcoholic beverages. Of course they were using other…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Sarsaparilla Mead
In her book, Old Time Recipes for Home made Wines, my paternal grandmother, Helen S. Wright, gives a recipe for sarsaparilla mead that calls for Spanish sarsaparilla. Sarsaparilla belongs to…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine: Raisin Wine
Raison wine dates back to pre-Roman times when grapes were dried to concentrate their juices. Such wines are still being made in northern Italy, Greece and the French Alps with…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine: Spruce Beer
My paternal grandmother, Helen S. Wright, included one recipe for spruce beer in her book, Old Time recipes for Home Made Wine. Spruce beer was important to the indigenous people…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Mulberry Wine
The berries of several species of mulberry tree can be made into wine. Some of the available ones in the US include white mulberry (Morus alba), native to East Asia…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Morello Wine
Morello cherries are a sour, very dark red cherries native to Europe and southwest Asia. They were cultivated by the Greeks as early as 300 BC and were popular with…