| Makes one gallon.
Ingredients:
| 3-1/2 lbs. Tomatoes |
6 Pints Water |
| 1 cup Raisins |
1-1/2 cups Sugar |
| 2-1/2 tsp Acid Blend |
1/4 Tannin |
| 1 Pkg Wine Yeast |
1 tsp Yeast Nutrient |
| 1 Campden, crush |
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Keep your acid tester and hydrometer handy. As with all
wild fruit the sugar and acid content varies greatly from
year to year and even from one location to another. The
recipe above is a general recipe to use which you may have
to adjust.
Directions:
- Wash tomatoes and remove any portions that are bruised. Cut into pieces.
- Place into nylon straining bag.
Press, crush and strain juice into primary fermenter.
Keeping all pulp in straining bag, tie top and place in
primary.
- Stir in all other ingredients EXCEPT yeast. Cover primary.
- After 24 hrs., add yeast . Cover primary.
- Stir daily, check hydrometer reading (S.G.) and press
pulp lightly to aid extraction.
- When ferment reaches S.G. 1.040 (about 5 days) strain
juice from bag. Syphon off sediment into clean secondary.
Attach lock.
- When S.G. reaches 1.000 (usually about 3 weeks), fermentation
is complete. Syphon juice off sediment into clean glass
container. Re-attach airlock.
- To aid in clearing, syphon again in 2 months and again,
if necessary, before bottling.
- Allow the wine to age.
If a slightly sweetened wine is more to your taste, add 1/2 tsp. of stabilizer and 1/4 cup of dissolved sugar at bottling. |
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