Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Sham Champagne
Karen The word champagne suggests a bubbly beverage made from grapes, specificall a French wine made to in Champagne, France, from Pinot noir, Chardennay, or Pinot meunier grapes. When my paternal…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Currant Wine
True currants are deciduous shrubs in the genus Ribes and are related to gooseberries. They are are found in northern climates where winters are cold an summers are warm. The…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: British Champagne
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…
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…