Basic Herb Or Flower Wine Recipe
From capedread 14 years agoIngredients
- Two quarts of Red Clover or Dandelion flower-heads. shopping list
- (Or any other type of edible/medicinal flower. shopping list
- Good ones to try are Calendula, Rose, Violet, Elderflower, lavender etc; Use your own judgment, the recipe is good for almost any combination of flowers and herbs). shopping list
- One Kilo (2.5 lbs) of sugar shopping list
- 3 lemons. shopping list
- Four ounces un-coated raisins or sultanas shopping list
- 1 tsp pectolase shopping list
- champagne type wine yeast. shopping list
- yeast nutrient shopping list
- 1 camden tablet crushed shopping list
How to make it
- Pick the flowers on a sunny morning after the dew has dried. They are best picked after several days of full sun
- Choose only the best flowers and discard all green parts at the base of the flowers.
- Collect two full quarts of flowers for each gallon you wish to make.
- collect only from areas that have not been sprayed with garden or agricultural pest sprays. Avoid all roadside flowers as they contain high levels of pollutants.
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- Clean the flowers of insects and dirt and place them into a large container. Add the juice from the three lemons and the washed and chopped ra
- pour over them six pints of boiling water.
- add everything except the yeast
- place fermenting bin in a warm place for 12 -24 hrs.
- Next day,
- take sg reading
- add yeast cover and keep in a warm place for 5-10 days
- stirring daily
- once ferment has calmed strain and put in demijohn
- allow to clear and wrack as usual
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