Post by dakota on Oct 2, 2006 15:13:16 GMT -5
Pour 1 gallon of hot tap water into a large (6 quart?) bowl. The biggest yellow Tupperware one works great.
Stir in 1 packet of dry yeast and a 4-pound bag of sugar.
Add 1 quart of chopped red raw tomatoes (although I think your mother's canned ones would work just fine). I chopped mine up in the food processor. Don't bother to peel them, if you use raw ones.
Stir all together and cover loosely.
Stir twice a day for 12 days, then on the 12th or 13th day, strain through progressively finer strainers until it's fairly smooth. (It won't be clear.)
Pour into bottles. I used two plastic 2-quart cranberry juice bottles and one glass whiskey bottle. Set the bottle caps on top, but do not screw them on.
Age at room temperature 6-8 weeks, then pour off to get rid of yeast sediment in bottom of bottle.
Stir in 1 packet of dry yeast and a 4-pound bag of sugar.
Add 1 quart of chopped red raw tomatoes (although I think your mother's canned ones would work just fine). I chopped mine up in the food processor. Don't bother to peel them, if you use raw ones.
Stir all together and cover loosely.
Stir twice a day for 12 days, then on the 12th or 13th day, strain through progressively finer strainers until it's fairly smooth. (It won't be clear.)
Pour into bottles. I used two plastic 2-quart cranberry juice bottles and one glass whiskey bottle. Set the bottle caps on top, but do not screw them on.
Age at room temperature 6-8 weeks, then pour off to get rid of yeast sediment in bottom of bottle.
It was pretty potent to say the least and sometimes a trip to the basement to get a taste turned into a 4 hr ordeal that ended with a person crawling on his hands and knees to get out of the basement and out to your vehicle. Most of the time you just went to the vehicle to sleep it off. ;D
and then I got a reaction from the wine that gave me the shits. 
Not a pretty sight. 
my lips are sealed. I think it was Tequila that night. 
