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To Make Port Wine

To make Port Wine.

RECIPE No. 6.

To 13 gals. spirit, 40 o. p., add : 55 66 66 water, 1 wine vinegar, 30 lbs. sugar, + oz. ground cinnamon infused in one quart water "ground cloves 50 Cayenne pepper-seeds, “ “ " 1 oz. tannin dissolved in half pint alcohol, 95 per cent.

Color with mallow flowers. (See "Wine Colorings.") An infusion of torrefied prunes is a very good Port aroma. (See "Recipe No.19," Brandy.) Common prunes cut and infused in spirit without being burned or torrefied, is also a good flavor for Port wine.

To make Port Wine.

RECIPE No. 7.

To 60 gals. wine made by our method of fermentation, add: 30 lbs. sugar, 3 gals. spirit, 40 o. p., + lb. powdered orris root infused in one gallon boiling water, and strained when cool, 1 quart cinnamon water (see above recipe), 1 66 clove " " 1 oz. tannin powder dissolved as above.

To make Port Wine.

RECIPE No. 8.

To 5 gals. fermented elderberry juice, add : “ “ spirit, 40 o. p., ELDERBERRY JUICE FOR MAKING PORT WINE. 153 40 gals. water, + oz. ground cloves infused in one quart of water, + " ground cinnamon 66 “ “ + lb. powdered orris root infused as directed in the the last recipe, 50 Cayenne pepper seeds, 20 lbs. sugar.

Fermented Elderberry Juice used in the above recipe.

RECIPE No. 9.

Press out the juice of the berries and put it in a fermenting cask. To each 40 gallons juice, add 20 lbs. of sugar, then let the juice ferment two or three days at a temperature of from 75 to 85 Fah., and stop the fermentation when the juice attains the degree of sweetness you desire. After fermentation, add : one gallon alcohol, 95 per cent, to each 10 gallons of juice, and let it stand ten days, then rack it off through a flannel filter. As a general thing, you should not let the juice ferment longer than 48 hours, or you may destroy too much of the sugar. Boiled Elderberry Juice for making Port Wine.

RECIPE No. 10.

Put the elderberries in a copper kettle (tinned over inside) and cover them with water; let them boil five minutes and afterwards put them in a clean cask. Add 1 gal. alcohol, 95 per cent, to each 10 gals. of the juice; this is done to preserve it. Elderberries thus prepared will make a first quality Port wine.