Apricot Wine
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Ingredients
- 1 pound dried apricots
- 4 quarts warm water
- 6½ cups white granulated sugar
- 2¼ cups brown sugar
- 1½ cups raisins
- 1 tablespoon ginger
- 2 lemons, sliced thin
- 2 oranges
- ½ yeast cake
Instructions
- Wash the apricots in several changes of water, then dry and cut in halves.
- Place apricots in a large crock, and pour on the warm water. Reserve ½ cup of water, and dissolve the yeast cake into it.
- Stir in the sugars, fruit, raisins, and ginger.
- Add the dissolved yeast and mix well.
- Cover with the top of the crock and let stand.
- Stir every other day.
- After thirty days, strain the mixture and bottle it.