Home › Brandy, Whiskey and Imitation Spirits › To Make Ginger Wine

To Make Ginger Wine

To make Cherry Port.

RECIPE No. 11.

To 15 gals. prepared cherry juice, add : 66 30 alcohol, 90 per cent, “ 30 Catalonia or Marseilles wine, 3 oz. essence of noyau, + lb. ground cinnamon infused in gal. water, " 66 " cloves " 1 quart " 3 mace infused in alcohol, 95 per cent.

Filter, and add water to make the wine any degree of strength you desire.

To Prepare Cherry Juice by Infusion for making Cherry Port, Bounce, and Brandy.

RECIPE No. 12.

Put the cherries into barrels and cover them with spirit, 95 per cent; let them steep for a month, and stir them well every eight days. Use the juice that runs off first, and repeat this operation two or three times. The last time, you may bruise your cherries and stones, and steep them altogether to make cherry brandy.

To Prepare Cherry Juice by Boiling.

RECIPE No. 13.

Put the cherries in a kettle tinned inside, cover them with water, and boil them at a gentle heat for one hour. When cold, put them into barrels and add 1 gal. spirit, 95 per cent, to each 10 gals. of the juice.

To make Ginger Wine.

RECIPE No. 14.

To 10 gals. spirit, 95 per cent, add : 5 lbs. ginger root,