Beetroot Wine

Ingredients:

• 10 lbs beetroot
• juice of 3 lemons
• 2lb Sugar
• ½ oz cloves
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1oz ginger
• yeast
• 10 pints cold water

Method:

Mince beetroot coarsely, put in a pot with the water. Add ginger, cloves and cinnamon and leave for 12 hours.

Bring to the boil and boil for 10 minutes, strain off liquid and add sugar and lemon juice.

Stir until sugar has dissolved.

Put into fermentation jars and add activated yeast when it has cooled enough.

Bottle when fermentation has stopped adding two raisins to each bottle.

Note: this tastes like a full bodied port wine, very warming.

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