Ingredients
Everything you'll need to make this recipe
1
1 pound dried apricots
2
4 quarts warm water
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6½ cups white granulated sugar
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2¼ cups brown sugar
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1½ cups raisins
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1 tablespoon ginger
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2 lemons, sliced thin
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2 oranges
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½ yeast cake
Instructions
Step-by-step guide to making this recipe
1
Wash the apricots in several changes of water, then dry and cut in halves.
2
Place apricots in a large crock, and pour on the warm water. Reserve ½ cup of water, and dissolve the yeast cake into it.
3
Stir in the sugars, fruit, raisins, and ginger.
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Add the dissolved yeast and mix well.
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Cover with the top of the crock and let stand.
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Stir every other day.
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After thirty days, strain the mixture and bottle it.
Notes
- •Be sure to check with national, regional, and municipal laws, to produce wine lawfully!
- •Please drink alcoholic beverages responsibly, and have someone sober drive you, if you need to travel after imbibing.
- •To jump start the yeast, dissolve in water with a pinch of the sugar the night before starting, and let stand covered with cloth or a paper towel in a warm place, like the top of the refrigerator.
- •An actual wine yeast from a wine making store or supplier would also improve outcome.
- •Extreme cleanliness will prevent spoiling due to bacteria or wild yeast.
- •For best fermentation, keep in a temperature you are comfortable in. Too cool and it ferments slower, too warm and it will ferment bitter, too hot and the yeast will die. They are alive, you know!