Verjus

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   Use at least 3 bunches of under ripe grapes. You could make bushel fulls, too!

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   Press the juice out of the grapes, using your fingers, or by crushing the bunches with bricks, or by using a wine press.

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   A wine press is a small barrell with a weighted lid on a substantial screw that winds down, down, down on the grapes. The liquid pours out of a spigot low on the barrel.

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   Strain and filter the juice, discarding the skins and seeds. Strain with muslin, a jelly bag, coffee filters, anything that will work to produce a clear liquid.

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   If you make a small quantity, use within 4 or 5 days. A larger quantity should be bottled and sterilized, or put in jars and sterilized.

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   The formatting of this recipe required me to give a minimum 2 ingredients, so I entered bunches of grapes twice!

* Per serving · 4 servings · Values may vary.

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