Best Grandpas Wine Recipes
GRANDPA'S WINE
I know nothing about making wine. I just drink it. :) This is a note in my mother's handwritten cookbook. "Mrs. Peschal's recipe. In 1961 this recipe was 100 years old, Mrs. Peschal an old farm lady was an old lady in 1930. She was a friend on my parents and moved to Indiana to live with her children. This is her recipe she gave my parents." I remember getting a teaspoon of this when I had a cough as a kid.
Provided by Bonnie Beck @sailboat
Categories Other Drinks
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Grind the fruit and add to distilled water.
- Heat the water and sugar until the sugar is dissolved. Cool completely.
- Add to distilled water and fruit to grape juice.
- Cork until fermented with fermenter. (Have NO idea what fermenter is.) If someone knows, please let me know.
WILD GRAPE WINE
This wine is ready to drink and bottle in 11 days. The older it gets the better it's quality. I got this recipe from the University of Minnesota. A note with the recipe said it was from a small family vineyard in France. I made a 5 gallon batch one year and gave it for gifts until I ran out 31/2 years later. One of the recipients was my priest. After Christmas mass the year I ran out, He stopped me to thank me for his gift but told me he missed my gift of wine that year. I told him I ran out. He then told me he had to call the local liquor store to open up so he could buy wine for Christmas Masses as he had been using my wine for communion wine on Christmas for the past 3 years. I felt so honored that my wine was used in such a special way. Number of servings is based on number of 4 ounce servings per gallon of wine. I use beer bottles It seems just enough for 2 for a meal. I use quart bottles for gifts. Be sure to store wine bottles on their side so the corks do not dry out.
Provided by Gramma Pat
Categories Beverages
Time P11DT1h
Yield 32 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Choose ripe Wild Grapes, Pick them in clusters on the stems, bring them home and wash them in cold water leaving them on the stems.
- Place grapes with stems on, in water just to cover, in an enamel or non metallic kettle.
- Bring just to a boil, simmer till skins on the grapes pop, Mash the grapes in the water, Strain juice into a non-metallic container, through several layers of cheese cloth or a clean dish towel to remove grape pulp, seeds and stems.
- Reserve the juice, Throw away stems and pulp.
- Measure the juice.
- Add equal amounts of sugar and water, (ie: 1 gal juice, 1 gal sugar, 1 gal water) put wine mixture in clean crock.
- spread or sprinkle 1 cake or one pkg dry yeast on dry bread crust and allow it to float on top of the wine mixture, cover crock with a clean dish towel, let ferment for 3 days, strain wine, into non metallic container such as an enamel canner kettle, wash the crock and be sure to rinse it very well, put wine back into the crock, allow to ferment for 4 days, stirring every day and skimming the foam from top, strain the wine again as before, wash the crock again, put wine back in the crock.
- Allow to ferment 4 days, stirring and skimming every day.
- Strain the wine once more, this time it is ready to bottle.
- The older it gets the better.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 2.1, Sodium 5.3, Carbohydrate 0.4, Protein 0.1
HOMEMADE WINE
This is an easy recipe for homemade wine. You can choose whatever flavor you like but my favorite is the red. You will need a sterile milk jug, a large latex balloon and a rubber band to complete the project. This Wine is a bit stronger than regular table wine. Its great for cooking as well as drinking.
Provided by MSGYPSYLEE
Categories Side Dish Sauces and Condiments Recipes Canning and Preserving Recipes
Time P7DT17h7m
Yield 32
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Combine the yeast, sugar and juice concentrate in a gallon jug. Fill the jug the rest of the way with cold water. Rinse out a large balloon, and fit it over the opening of the jug. Secure the balloon with a rubber band.
- Place jug in a cool dark place. Within a day you will notice the balloon starting to expand. As the sugar turns to alcohol the gasses released will fill up the balloon. When the balloon is deflated back to size the wine is ready to drink. It takes about 6 weeks total.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 120.6 calories, Carbohydrate 30.8 g, Cholesterol 0 mg, Fat 0.1 g, Fiber 0.1 g, Protein 0.2 g, SaturatedFat 0 g, Sodium 4.1 mg, Sugar 30.7 g
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