[From: Every Woman's Cook Book by Mrs. Chas. F. Moritz (1926) p. 617]

                   BLACKBERRY WINE

  8 qts. berries                         4 lbs. sugar
2½ pints cold or hot water        1 cup seeded raisins

  Wash berries thoroughly.  Crush with bottom of milk bottle or
wooden potato masher.  Place in large stone jar, cover with water,
mix, cover with top and tie with cloth.  Let stand three to four
days to ferment.  Strain through jelly bag, squeezing out all juice.
Return to jar, add sugar and raisins.  Mix well, cover as before,
let stand four weeks, or until covenient to bottle.  Stir a few times
each week.
  Strain through filter paper, or absorbent cotton. Bottle in sterilized
bottle, cork lightly five or six weeks, then press in corks and seal
with sealing wax or paraffine.