DANDELION WINE
2 gal. crock
3-5 qts. blossoms
5 qts water
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3 lbs. sugar
1 organic orange
1 organic lemon
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1 pkg, live yeast
wholewheat bread toast
Pick the best looking flowers, leaving the green sepals, but get rid of the stalks. Back home, put them immediately into a large ceramic, glass or plastic vessel.
Boil water; pour over flowers. Cover your crock for 3 days.
On the fourth day strain blossoms from liquid. Cook liquid with sugar and rind of citrus (omit rind if not organic) for 30-60 min. Return to crock.
Add citrus juice.
When liquid has cooled to blood temp, soften yeast, spread on toast, and float toast in crock.
Cover and let work for 2 days. Strain. Return liquid to crock for 1 more day to settle. Filter into very clean bottles and cork lightly.
Don't drink until winter solstice.
NOTE: If you don't big enough pot..or..it takes a really long time to pick that many flowers..make half the recipe..BUT...don't forget -- -- to halve everything but the sugar.
NOTE: Nugget of wisdom is to respect authority (just this once) and honor the expiration date on the yeast.
SOURCE: University of Wisconsin - Extension
http://www.hort.wisc.edu/mastergarde.../dandelion.htm
