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    Elderberry wine
    Recipe to make 1 gallon.
    Ingredients:
    3lb-ripe Elderberries (1lt-water)
    1Lt-red grape juice (or 1lb-raisins and 1lt-water)
    2lb-white sugar.(1pint-water to make syrup)
    1-lemon (no peel or pith) strain the juice.
    1tsp-pectic enzyme.
    1/2tsp-tannin.
    1tsp-wine yeast compound.
    1tbls-finings.
    2tbls-glycerine (to taste)

    method:
    bring the elderberries to a boil then simmer for 20 minutes then
    strain the hot liquid over half the sugar and stir until the sugar
    as dissolved, then leave to cool. Now extract as much of the
    elderberries juice from the pulp as possible, when all the liquids
    are cool add them to a demijohn,with the juice of the lemon, red
    grape juice, pectic-enzyme, tannin and wine yeast compound, fit
    the airlock, and ferment for a week, then add the rest of the sugar
    in a (syrup form, cool) and top up with water to the neck of the dj
    fit-airlock and fully ferment out, when fermenting as stopped rack
    add finings, rack again then add glycerine to taste.
    This wine should be left to mature for at least 12 months.

    Note: if you use raisins you will need to boil them in the same
    way as the elderberries and extract as much juice as possible and
    use it when it's cool instead of the grape juice.
    Make sure you dont use more than 2lt of water to start the wine
    Because you still need to add the sugar syrup in 1 week.
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