Tomato Wine

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Ingredients

4 pounds green tomatoes

1 quart balm leaves including stalks

1 pound raisins, sultanas or c

1 pound maize, barley or wheat

2 lemons or oranges (half an<

3 pounds sugar

1 gal water

half a pint cold tea

Activated yeast and nutrient

Preparation

Soak the grains overnight. Scald the dried fruit and pass the grains, leaves and stalks together with the tomatoes, dried fruit and fruit rinds (no white pith) through a mincer. Place the minced ingredients in the fermenting jar and add the sugar. Pour boiling water over this and stir well to dissolve the sugar. When cool add the cold tea, fruit juices or citric acid, activated yeast and nutrient. Ferment for seven days then stra