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Notes: GRANNY SAYS.....for your next happy hour....LOL.
Yes, we actually tried to make a little “moonshine” back in the day before you could get any kind of wine, from any country in the world, that you wanted, on every grocery shelf and drugstore and big box stores, etc. We only had “liquor stores” back then and then I think you even had to have some special kind of stamp to even buy stuff there. You could get a beer at the Tavern, but to get the hard stuff you had to go to the “liquor store”....then in the tavern you could order a seven-up and add your hard liquor that you brought with you in a brown paper bag. It had to be kind of a sneaky thing. But anyway....wouldn’t know about that. I left home at 18, the only booze I ever had was when dad made us take a sip of Shnapps or a little Whisky on a spoon with a little sugar if we were sick. Or when one of my nursing school friends snuck a bottle of blackberry something into the dorms, ha....we had a good time that day!
So anyway, not sure if you could even get wines at the liquor store....so a lot of the folks tried their hand at making it. I remember dad a time or two, trying this in the basement. It wasn’t too bad from what I remember, but any kind of booze to me, back then, was gross.....hadn’t developed my palate yet then, I guess....; )
And John and I even tried this a time or two in the basement after we were married, but think the balloon always broke before it’s time....probably too cheap to buy that 10 cent balloon,ha....
Not sure what recipe dad used, but this recipe was from an old, old Chelsea cookbook, so it could very well be the one he used.....
You can even make your own label now-a-days.Maybe we could start up the Nurre Vineyards.......! But you just don’t see wine recipes much anymore....maybe if I Google.....Drink up....; )
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