MELLOW YELLOW -DANDELION WINE

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DANDELION WINE

From page 45 of Fleischmann's Recipes, c.1915 by the Fleischmann Company

This book has the signature of my Aunt, she must have been about ten years old at the time, so it really was my Grandmother's little cookbook. I know my father said he got a bottle of Dandelion Wine for a wedding present. Could be from the same instructions.
 He may have finished it off the night Orson Wells broadcast his War of the Worlds from his MercuryTheatre on the Air :
 . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama)

Then I think he left the supper dishes and went down to the harbour with some of his buddies to wait for the Martians. My mother and the rest of us were off visiting and never heard it.

• Pour one gallon of boiling water over three quarts of dandelion flowers.
•  Let stand twenty-four hours.
•  Strain and add five pounds of light brown sugar, juice and rind of two lemons, juice and rind of two oranges. 
•  Let boil ten minutes and strain.
•  When cold, add half a cake of Fleischmann's Yeast.
•  Put in crock and let stand until it commences to work. 
•  Then bottle and put corks in loose to let it work.

Spare the grape.

• In each bottle put one raisin, after it stops working.  Cork Tight.