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Mulberry wine recipe?
paull2
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in Fruit & veg
My King James (black) mulberry tree is now about 12 years old (a baby!) and beginning to produce a serious crop in domestic terms. I can only eat so many myself and my family find them a mite tart for their tastes, so what if I turned a few pounds into a gallon of wine? Anyone with a tried recipe? All the Net references I see witter on about American wild mulberries and US style measurements which aren't as down to earth as I'd wish. Help! Is it worth the trouble?
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Hi Pauli
I believe the American red mulberry fruit is very similar to our black mulberry, so the quantities should be correct. Have you tried googling for an American to British conversion tables to translate the American measurements. If not I do have this recipe from an ancient [1960's] Readers Digest Complete library of the Garden Vol2.:
Ingredients: 4lb Mulberries, 3.5 lb sugar, 1 gall water and use Claret yeast.
Place fruit and water in large bucket and pulp fruit. Add sugar and yeast, keep in a warm place and leave to ferment in bucket for 3 days stirring twice a day. Pass mixture through a coarse nylon sieve then a fine sieve and transfer to a 1 gallon demi-john to complete fermentation. It says it will produce a dry red wine. best of luck
Anything from the 60s can't be that bad! Thanks for the input. 4 lbs of mulberries may be a little ambitious for me this year, so I'll scale down accordingly.