Raspberry Wine
- 750g (1 ½ lb) raspberries
- 1kg (2.2lb) sugar
- 2 oranges
- Yeast
- 2 campden tablets
- 4 ½ litres (1 gallon) water
Pick over the raspberries, removing and unripe fruit and place in a plastic bucket. Pour over it 3 litres (5 pints) of boiling water, then mash the fruit up well with a wooden spoon and add one crushed campden tablet. Leave for two days then strain off the juice through a muslin, pressing well to get all the fruit through. Add the juice of the oranges. Boil up the rest of the water with the sugar and add it to the liquid. Start the yeast and add it when the mixture is cool enough. Leave to ferment in a bucket for 3 days, then move to a fermenting jar with and airlock. Leave it to ferment until all working has stopped, filter and add a crushed campden tablet. Taste it. It may be too dry, if so you can sweeten it with a very small amount of sugar syrup. Bottle in sterilized bottles and store in a cool place.
