[Sca-cooks] Verjuice

[Denise Wolff]

Ripe.


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>From: "Radei Drchevich" <radei at moscowmail.com>
>Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Verjuice
>Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:40:35 -0500
>
>Could you please define "when the kernels turn black"?
>
>I have a tree full of crabapples and really want to try this this year.
>
>joy
>
>radei
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: "Denise Wolff"
>   To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>   Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Verjuice
>   Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:39:52 -0400
>
>
>   > From: wildecelery at aol.com
>   > Subject: [Sca-cooks] Verjuice
>
>
>   > Mistress Andrea,
>   > Can you share the directions for making verjuice from crabapples?
>   > -Ardenia
>
>   Sure! Andrea
>
>   Gather the crab apples and trim all the blackend areas.Then the
>   apples are crushed (I used a food processor) and Press
>   (Cheesecloth) for their juice. Place in clean container with
>   cheesecloth over mouth of vessel. Allow to sit at room temperature
>   (I used the weekend). Then transfer to clean bottles and cap (as if
>   you were bottling wine or mead). Keep in fridge to maintain .
>
>
>   139. To make Verjuice.
>
>   Gather your Crabs as foon as the Ker-nels turn black, and lay
>   them a while in a heap to Sweat, then pick them from the Stalks,
>   blacks, and rottenefs, then crufh and beat them all to pieces in a
>   Tub, then make a bag of courfe Hair-cloath as big as your Prefs,
>   and fill it with the crufht Crabs, then put it into the Prefs and
>   Prefs it as long as any moifture will drop out, having a clean Veffel
>   underneath to re- ceive the Liquor ; then Tun it up in fweet
>   Hogfheads, and to every Hogfhead put half a dozen handfuls of Damask
>   Rofe Leaves, then bring it up, and fpend it as you have Occafion.
>
>   The Accomplifh'd Lady's Delight in Preferving, Phyfick,
>   Beautifying, and Cookery. 1675
>
>
>
>
>   *From the very core of our being we desire contentment.  For
>   harmony each individual's identity must be fully respected.
>   ~ Dalai Lama
>
>   Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity,
>   personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
>   ~ William Menninger
>
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