Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine: Tomato Wine
Tomato wine has been around from the mid 1800s but has never been very popular. Although it resembles white wine in aroma and taste it is also rather acidic which…
Tomato wine has been around from the mid 1800s but has never been very popular. Although it resembles white wine in aroma and taste it is also rather acidic which…
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…
Making beer from peas goes back to 17th century England when brewers and distillers were using peas and other legumes to make alcoholic beverages. Of course they were using other…
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…
Raison wine dates back to pre-Roman times when grapes were dried to concentrate their juices. Such wines are still being made in northern Italy, Greece and the French Alps with…
My paternal grandmother, Helen S. Wright, included one recipe for spruce beer in her book, Old Time recipes for Home Made Wine. Spruce beer was important to the indigenous people…
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…
Morello cherries are a sour, very dark red cherries native to Europe and southwest Asia. They were cultivated by the Greeks as early as 300 BC and were popular with…
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…
Clover wine today is made with the flowers or red rather than white clover. Over a hundred years ago when my paternal grandmother, Helen S. Wright, wrote her book Old…