How to Make Grape Juice
and Easy Wine Recipes
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Too many grapes in the garden? Here's a recipe for making your
own grape juice and grape jelly,
along with a couple grape recipes I found
in a 1950's cookbook and some Elderberry wine. If I find anything else about grapes,
I'll post it here.
Grandmas Grape Juice
Wash 10 lbs Concord Grapes, and put in an enamel pan Barely cover with water. Cook slowly, stirring to prevent sticking, until the grapes are soft. Strain. Return juice to heat and add 3 lbs of sugar. Let it come to a boil. Pour into hot, sterilized bottles or jars and seal.Easy Grape Juice
10 lbs. grapes1 cup water
3 lbs. sugar
Put grapes and water in granite stew-pan. Heat until seeds
and pulp separate; then strain through jelly-bag, add sugar, heat to boiling-point,
and bottle. This will make one gallon. When served, it should be diluted one-half
with water.
Homemade Grape Jelly
Wash and stem grapes. Barely cover with water. Heat to boiling and let simmer 10 or 15 minutes. Strain through jelly bag. Use 1 cup sugar to each cup juice. Small amounts usually turn out better than large amounts. Heat juice, add sugar, and cook rapidly unti 2 drops sheet off of spoon. Pour into hot, sterlized glasses or jars and seal.Concord Grape Pie
7 cups Concord grapes3 Tablespoons cornstarch
1 1/2 cups sugar
3/4 tsp salt
Grated rind of one orange
Plain pastry
Wash a stem grapes. Slip skins from pulp. Heat pulp to boiling and boil 5 minutes. Then rub through sieve to remove seeds. Combine cornstarch, sugar, salt, and orange rind with grape pulp. Cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Add grape skins and cool. Turn mixture into your pie crust shell. Top with crisscross pastry strips. Put another strip around pie to hold strips in place. Bake in a hot oven 425 for 10 minutes then reduce to 325 for 20 minutes more.
Concord Grape and Green Tomato Pie
3 partly green tomatoes1 1/2 cups Concord grapes
Plain Pastry
1 1/4 cups sugar
3 Tablespoons flour
Salt
Cream
Wash tomatoes and grapes. Line pie plate with pastry. Sprinkle 1/4 cup sugar on pastry. Slice tomatoes rather thin and place a layer over the sugar. With a sharp knife cut each grape almost through. Remove seeds and lay open over the tomatoes till fairly well covered. Cover this with 1/2 each of the sugar and flour and a sprinkle of salt. Repeat, making two layers in all. Cover with top crust. Moisten edges of pastry with water. Press edges tightly together and trim. Brush top crust with cream and bake in hot oven at 425 for 10 minutes. Decrease to 350 and continue to bake 30 minutes or until well browned.
Homemade Grape Jelly from Grapes
Wash
and stem grapes. Barely cover with water.
Heat to boiling and let simmer 10
or 15 minutes. Strain through jelly bag.
Use 1 cup sugar to each cup juice.
Small
amounts usually turn out better than large amounts.
Heat juice, add sugar,
and cook rapidly unti 2 drops sheet off of spoon.
Pour into hot, sterlized
glasses or jars and seal.
How to make Elderberry Wine
Put only enough water with the berries to keep them from burning and cook but a few minutes, just long enough to scald thoroughly. Strain through a cheesecloth, add eight cups of sugar to 10 cups of berry juice. Set away in a cool place to ferment and skim daily until clear. When bubbles cease to rise on top of the liquid, it is ready to bottle.Use only white sugar and you will have some of the richest flavored wine you ever tasted. Yeast is apt to sour the wine and it is a mistake to hurry the fermenting process. The addition of other liquor spoils the fine natural flavor.
Grape Wine
2 (12 oz) cans frozen concentrated Welches grape juice3 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 tsp. dry yeast
Thaw grape juice. Pour into a 1 gallon glass jug with small opening. Add sugar, yeast, and stir well. Add enough water to come to just below the neck of the jug. Put a large balloon over the neck. Fasten with a rubber band wrapped around the neck. The balloon will expand to full size and usually return to the original size. Keep at room temperature at all times. Usually takes 4 to 6 weeks.
Grape Wine
4 sm cans frozen grape juice4 cups sugar
1/4 tsp dry yeast
Use 2 cups warm water to dissolve juice, sugar and yeast. Pour into 1 gallon container, and fill the rest of the way with water. Tie a sturdy balloon over the top of container. Store in a warm place. The balloon will rise. When it goes back down (in a week to 10 days) remove balloon and cap the jug. Store in a warm dark place.
Grape Wine from Grapes
Pick and wash grapes, mash and let stand from 3 to 4 days. Keep covered with cheesecloth. Strain. To 3 gallons of water add 2 gallons of juice. Dilute 10 lbs of sugar in the water.
Grape Wine
1
gallon regular grape juice
3 gallons water
10 lbs sugar
4 large cans
frozen grape juice
2 cups whiskey
1/4 tsp yeast
Use less water if necessary
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