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Basic Herb Or Flower Wine Recipe Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Capedread / All my dishes 4 months, 3 weeks ago Flower and herb wines are delicate and benefit by bottling in dark bottles. They need only six months before drinking once bottled. one gallon = 6-7 bottles Prep:20m Servings:6	Capedread
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Ingredients

Two quarts of Red Clover or Dandelion flower-heads.

(Or any other type of edible/medicinal flower.

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).

One Kilo (2.5 lbs) of sugar

3 lemons.

Four ounces un-coated raisins or sultanas

1 tsp pectolase

Champagne type wine yeast.

yeast nutrient

1 camden tablet crushed

Directions

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.

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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