Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine: Mountain Wine
Karen The Spanish city of Malaga is known for the very fine raisins they produce from Muscatel grapes. These Muscatel grape is very sweet and has anintense flavor; It originated in…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Fine Clary Wine
Clary (Salvia sclarea) is a biennial herb that has a long history of use to remove irritants from the eye and to flavor alcoholic beverages. German wine merchants in the…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine: Clover Wine
Clover wine today is made with the flowers or red rather than white clover. Over a hundred years ago when my paternal grandmother, Helen S. Wright, wrote her book Old…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine: Rhubarb Wine
Rhubarb is one of those wine foods that you either hate or love and rhubarb wine is not at the top of most people’s favorite wine list. There is, however,…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Cherry Wine
Cherry wine is one of the many different kinds of fruit wines that are especially good for cooking or as part of dessert. You can purchase them on line but…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine: Mead
Mead, also called honey wine, is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey with water sometimes with the addition of spices, hops, grains or fruits. Archeological evidence indicates that it…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine: Quince
Not many people grow quinces or do much with the fruit. It is a deciduous tree related to pears and apples and has been grown for its fruit as well…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Porter
My maternal grandmother, Helen S. Wright, includes two recipes for porter in her book, Old time Recipes for Home Made Wines, one for bottling, the other for immediate use. Porter…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Strawberry Wines
Strawberry wine conjures up thoughts of spring and a cool refreshing drink with a great aroma and taste. Although modern recipes call for such things as pectin enzyme, wine tannins,…