Hawthorn Blossom Wine
Hawthorn Blossom Wine
Ingredients
2 Quarts (4 pints) of Hawthorn blossoms
2 Lemons
3.5 lbs. sugar
9 pints water
Yeast and nutrient
Optional - tin of white grape juice concentrate - add with the yeast.
Method.
Grate the rind from the lemons, being careful to include no white pith, and boil with the sugar and the juice of one lemon in the water for half an hour.
Pour into a bowl and when it has cooled to 70 degrees F, add the yeast (and preferably, as with all flower wines, a good yeast nutrient). Add the white grape juice concentrate now if using it.
Leave for 24 hours, then tip in the flowers.
Let the mixture stand for another eight days, stirring well each day.
Then strain through two layers of butter muslin into fermenting vessels and fit trap.
Rack for the first time when it clears and after a second racking about 3 months later, bottle in the usual way.
This is a light and delicious wine.