Carrot Wine

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Farmhouse Kitchen

By Audrey Ellis

Published 1971

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Ingredients

  • 4 lb. good carrots
  • 1 gallon water
  • rind and juice of 1 large

Method

Scrub and grate the carrots. Boil them for 10 minutes with the lemon, orange and grapefruit rinds. Strain and when cool add the Campden tablet and the Pektolase to the liquor. Cover and leave for 24 hours. Stir in the sugar, chopped raisins, fruit juice, fermenting yeast and nutrient. Remove raisins from fermenting liquor after 7 days, allow fermentation to continue.