Apricot Wine

Name: Apricot Wine
Ingredients: 1 pound dried apricots; 4 quarts warm water; 6½ cups white granulated sugar; 2¼ cups brown sugar; 1½ cups raisins; 1 tablespoon ginger; 2 lemons, sliced thin; 2 oranges; ½ yeast cake

Ingredients

1 pound dried apricots
4 quarts warm water
6½ cups white granulated sugar
2¼ cups brown sugar
1½ cups raisins
1 tablespoon ginger
2 lemons, sliced thin
2 oranges
½ yeast cake

Steps

Wash the apricots in several changes of water, then dry and cut in halves.
Place apricots in a large crock, and pour on the warm water. Reserve ½ cup of water, and dissolve the yeast cake into it.
Stir in the sugars, fruit, raisins, and ginger.
Add the dissolved yeast and mix well.
Cover with the top of the crock and let stand.
Stir every other day.
After thirty days, strain the mixture and bottle it.

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Adapted from “Apricot Wine” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.