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Homemade Dandelion Wine

published by DA Cournean on Mar 26, 2009

Once you have tried this tasty wine, you will never look at those pesky little weeds in the same light again.

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Take care to pick chemical and herbicide free fully developed blossoms (no stems).  Fill a brown paper grocery bag about half full.  Rinse  tops gently with cool tap water 

Ingredients

  • 6- 1qt.  clean canning jars with lids
  • cheese cloth or new clean panty hose
  • 2 large pots
  • 6 cups white cane sugar
  • 1 package dry yeast

Method

  1. In large pan, stir to dissolve  6 cups sugar in 6 quarts of water. Add flower blossoms.  Bring to a boil and then boil for 5 minutes.  Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.
  2. Dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm water.
  3. Strain liquid  into large pan or crock using cheese cloth or panty hose to catch flower blossoms.  Discard flowers.
  4. Stir dissolved yeast into liquid in pan, cover with clean towel and let sit overnight.
  5. In the morning,  stir mixture,  then pour into canning jars and seal.  Store in cool dark place for at least 1 month.  Like any other wine, it gets better with age!

9 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

  1. # 1 by Dee Gold
    March 26th, 2009 at 8:50 am #

    intersting

  2. # 2 by Dee Gold
    March 26th, 2009 at 8:52 am #

    sorry for the typo that you should be interesting

  3. # 3 by Dee Gold
    March 26th, 2009 at 9:03 am #

    The word,you, should not be included in my 2nd comment.
    I think I had 2 typos because I was too excited to leave a comment.Sorry again.

  4. # 4 by rutherfranc
    March 26th, 2009 at 10:30 am #

    wine from the flower?? that`s new for me.. and Dee, admit it.. you already had a taste of that wine that`s causing the typo..

  5. # 5 by DA Cournean
    March 26th, 2009 at 11:30 am #

    You guys are funny! I wish I had a glass now, but they havn’t grown in my yard yet!

  6. # 6 by CutestPrincess
    March 27th, 2009 at 8:34 am #

    sounds good… i’ll try this for sure!

  7. # 7 by kate smedley
    April 27th, 2009 at 6:14 am #

    I’ll go for that, thanks!

  8. # 8 by thestickman
    April 27th, 2009 at 6:17 am #

    My mom & dad tried making this back in the early 1990s… they did a large floor-sitting crock-pot of it and it bubbled & gurgled for about a year! They finally lost their nerve to try it and dumped the whole thing. It was funny. :-)
    Their elderberry wine turned out excellent though…

  9. # 9 by Luffy12
    April 27th, 2009 at 8:10 am #

    great cooking lesson

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