Did you know you can make wine out of just about any fruit or vegetable with a fairly high sugar content – even pumpkin wine? One of my foraging mentors, the late Mike Jacisin, was willing to experiment with cooking and fermenting just about anything. One year he was blessed with an abundance of onions,…
When life gives you too many overripe pears, it’s time to learn how to make pear wine. This wine recipe is dry, with a light pear flavor, and is a good use for very ripe and lightly damaged pears. This recipe is adapted from “How to Make Wine in Your Own Kitchen” by Mettja C. Roate….
When rhubarb is abundant, I like to use it in recipes like rhubarb pudding cake and rhubarbade, but I hadn’t tackled rhubarb wine. When looking through my favorite old school winemaking book, I came across a rhubarb cherry wine recipe that looked like a perfect combination to use the rhubarb harvest and the stash of…
How to make elderberry wine – it’s something I’ve wondered about since watching Monty Python’s Quest for the Holy Grail many years ago. (“Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.”) It turns out that making homemade elderberry wine is pretty easy, as long as you have elderberries. If you don’t have…
I have been asked a number of times if you can make a fruitcake from the discarded fruit leftover from dandelion wine making. People just hate to throw it out. I can now confirm that, yes, you can make dandelion wine fruitcake – and it tastes pretty good. My brother gave it a thumbs up…