Wet Sunday and Dandelion wine

We went out for a meal with friends last night came home about 1.30am so we were late up this morning.

Barbara decided to go to the car boot in the village.
I decided to take the dogs on the same walk we did on Saturday, called to pick up a paper in the village and it started to rain hard.

By the time I arrived at the car park it had stopped what a Difference a day makes.

On the walk I came across some pheasant egg shells it looks like a weasel had found a nest nearby but I could not find any nest.

It started to rain on the way back to the car but not to hard .

I spent the rest of the day racking the 2 gallons of parsnip wine I made early in the year into clean demijohns, and making Dandelion wine .


Dandelion Wine
ingredients

2litres dandelion flower heads
1kilo (2. 1/4 lb) Sugar add more if sweet wine required
4 Oranges
water to 4.5litres (1gallon)
1teaspoon Yeast nutrient
yeast

Method
pick the flowers when the sun is out and they are fully open.
use the all head (but not the stem)
Pour boiling water over the flower heads and leave for 2 days no more as it give the wine a bad taste.
Boil the mixture for 10 minutes with the orange peel (no white Pith).
Strain through muslin on to the sugar, When cool add the fruit juice, yeast nutrient and yeast.
Keep in a warm place closely covered for for 4 days then pour into demijohn and fit airlock.
leave till it clears then siphon into clean demijohn.
add 1 tea spoon of wine stabiliser and 1 crushed Camden tablet Leave to clear then bottle.
Makes an excellent white Table wine.