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CHERRY PLUM WINE
9 Ib. cherry plums
8 oz. chopped raisins
3 1/4 Ib. sugar
I gallon water
Campden tablet
Pectozyme
Nutrient
Sauterne yeast
Rind and juice 2 large lemons
Stalk and wash the fruit, add the chopped raisins and
the lemon rind, then pour on the boiling water. When cool mash the fruit
with your hands and if possible remove the stones. Add one Campden
tablet, one teaspoonful of pectozyme and the lemon juice. Next day add
the actively fermenting yeast and nutrient and ferment for five days.
Then strain and press, add 28 Ib. sugar and continue the fermentation.
Add the remaining three doses of 4 oz. sugar each time the S. G. falls
below 1.010. Rack and mature in the usual way.
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