Carrot Wine
By: Anonymous
Published: Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 10:50am

Ingredients




5 pounds carrots
pound raisins
pound kibbled maize(?) probably corn meal would work
2 oranges
2 lemons
4 pounds sugar
9 pints water
yeast and nutrient

Preparation

1 Scrub, grate or mince the carrots and simmer in 7 pints of water for 5 minutes. Strain, through 2 thicknesses of fine muslin and add 1/2 the sugar. Add the maize, the raisins the juice of the lemons and oranges, cool, and pitch yeast and nutrient. Ferment for 14 days stirring and crushing the raisins at least 3 times during the ferment. Strain and wring out the raisins. Make a syrup of the remaining sugar and water and add. Rack and fit a fermentation loc