dandelions

Mollymoonlight

I love the idea of dandelion wine, but I'd have to fight the buns for them

Badrick

Little_Vics wrote: »

I wouldn't dare - am hanging on for the dandelion wine recipe!

Alcohol is never the answer, but you'll need a drink after you've picked the required quantity of flower heads
You'd get away with using bread yeast and you can also substitute half a carton of no bits orange juice for the oranges and then miss out steps 4 & 5 of THIS recipe.

bridgitonboat

I make dandelion wine, lots of recipes out there but heres one
2 quarts dandelion heads
3 lb sugar
1 lemon, 1orange
1/2 cup tea
6 pts boiling water
campden tablets, wine yeast and nutrient.

splodger_seedswapper

sorry for being so slow with my recipe - i've been busy making wine

for my dandelion wine - i picked approx a kg of flowerheads (pick them on a dry sunny day, when the flowers are fully open - green back of flowerhead ok, but no stem )

a kg of flowers is just about enough for 2 gals of wine - put flowers in a bucket, boil up 2 gals of water and pour over the flowers - cover and leave to steep for a day or two

after steeping - i strain off the liquor, add rind from 2 lemons and 2 oranges - and bring to the boil.

i clean out the bucket - add the juice from the citrus fruit and approx 4 kgs sugar - once liquor has boiled - i pour over the sugar and stir to dissolve. once cooled i add yeast and nutrient - this mix stays in a covered bucket for 4 or 5 days - i then strain again and put into djs to ferment as per any wine. should be ready to drink by nov/dec :beer:

there are loads of different recipes out there - worth making if you can be bothered to pick the flowers - i call it "fancy cat" when i give as chrimbo pressy

now mine is ready to put into djs - i'm off out to harvest young oak leaves - that makes a lovely wine too :beer: