Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Fine Brandy Shrub
Karen 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: 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: 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 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: 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 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 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 Wine: Champagne Cup
Sparkling wine makes an everyday event special so champagne is a wonderful drink to lift the spirts and make an occasion memorable. My dear paternal grandmother, Helen S. Wright, in…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Ginger Beer
My paternal grandmother, Helen S. Wright, included two recipes for ginger beer in her book, Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines. Traditionally ginger beer is made from the fermentation…
Old Time Recipes for Home made Wines: Scurvy-Grass Wine
My paternal grandmother, Helen S Wright, included a recipe for wine made from scurvy grass in her book, Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines . In times past scurvy-grass…