The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #21028   Message #222291
Posted By: Jon Freeman
03-May-00 - 12:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: Dandelion Wine Recipe
Subject: RE: BS: Dandelion Wine Recipe
Not sure how you make it MMario but my mum used to make it and I can assure you it is nice. One thing with the Elder is you've got the white elderflower and the red elderberry.

One on my favourites was cowslip wine. I think that in the UK, they are protected but we used to have loads of them - probably getting on for 1/4 acre and they kept coming back abundantly each year.

Another nice one was a plum wine. We had this plum tree that produced fruit that were hard and pretty well inedible but the wine was something else. I'll never forget taking some of this to one of the local festivals. It was a little bit too fresh to drink but my stomach was used to it. The people I gave some of it to enjoyed it but did not have my constitution and were quite sick and I became known as "The Conwy Poisoner" for the rest of the week.

Jon