My grandmother used to make plum wine with plums and sugar.?

What is wrong with this recipe? And is there a simple one that is safe?

My grandmother used to make plum wine with plums and sugar.?
Easy Plum Wine Recipe (one gallon recipe)



3 1/2 lb ripe plums

4lb-granulated sugar

1 pack yeast

1 gallon boiling water

Wash plums and pour on water.

Stir and mash with wooden spoon.

Leave for ten days.

Remove mould carefully. Strain off into another bowl and add sugar, yeast and stir.

Cover and stir daily for three days.

Ready to bottle use demijohn or gallon jug here.

Ready in six months. Better after nine.



My only real concern with this recipe is that the wine would not be done fermenting when bottled. It may be a good idea to put on an airlock for a while to make sure it is done fermenting before final bottling and aging. Also, with no chemicals used, I wouldn't store too long before drinking. I would probably add a Campden tablet at final bottling to kill off any stray bacteria.





Let me know how it works out if you try it!
Reply:Nothing is wrong with this recipe. What she is making is Kosher wine. I am sure you have heard of Menaschevitz right? The Jewish ceremonial wine. The recipe your grandmother is making is drank throughout world by Jews on the sabbath every week. You'll probably notice she doesn't seal it right away. This allows time for natural yeast to find it's way to the sugar and start the firmenting process.

Convicts make this recipe as well only they call it pruno and as you may have noticed by the name they use prunes instead (or any other high fructose fruit they can get their hands on). They take a piece of bread and put it in a high sugar fruit juice base or rot a piece of fruit in a high sugar base to make a "kicker" to attract yeast before they seal their bags and keep it in a warm place.

As for a simple wine recipe that is safe and quick try this one. It may sound strange, tomato wine, it tastes like a bloody mary.



Get two cans of tomato puree, a pound and a half of sugar and a couple of tablespoons of you gma's kosher wine (same as a convicts kicker).

Mix all of these together in a gallon of water. You can put it in any thing you want. I prefer a trash bag. But I learned in prison so you may want to get a two gallon bottle with a pressure top. Keep it in a warm dark place and make sure to relieve the pressure that will build up. Tomato wine with a good kicker will actually ferment within 3 to 5 days and have the potency of a good malt liquor. If you want it to keep getting stronger add sugar every couple of days. If the yeast stops having sugar to feed on it will start feeding on the alcohol and you will end up with tomato vinegar.

You can do this with any fruit juice you like. For some reason tomato just ferments faster.

Try cranberry concentrate too, it is great and gets you f*cked up fast due to some of the attributes of the cranberry flushing and replenishing....
Reply:it would help to see recipe my gran made it too along with blackberry%26amp; chokecherry and mulberry
Reply:Since you didn't say how you were trying to do that it is difficult to figure out what you did or were doing wrong. I am sure someone in here will give you a good recipe though.
Reply:Your forgetting the "starter" or the fermentation.



Usually you can "make this" by putting "yeast" from a pouch in with like "fruit cocktail" or other fruits until it "ripens or smells yeasty" within 30 days or so. Leave it covered with a cottony cloth under a bed or darkend area and bring out to smell every so often.



When the yeast has "fermented" then transpose (move) some of the ingredients from one jar to the jar with the plums and sugars and it will then start fermenting it! Also, you want to leave it in a darkened area while it ferments also.
Reply:Well, if you list the recipe and method, I could probably answer a lot better.

Yes, there are many people making safe homemade wines.



The alcohol is created from fermentation...BTW.
Reply:never tried it
Reply:well u dont have alcohol in that recipe, come down to franklin county virginia, moonshine capital of the world, we will show u how to make some good wine