Birch champagne
The birch champagne ( also birch wine ) is made from birch sap . It was mentioned in a house lexicon as early as 1834 : “ This drink is said to be confusingly similar to real champagne . "
You boil fresh birch sap with sugar in a kettle while skimming it to a quarter, strain the liquid through a cloth into a barrel, after cooling down, add warm yeast and Franzwein as well as lemon , with care, let this mixture ferment, the barrel bunged and pulls the wine into bottles after four weeks of storage. When pouring, you first pour a teaspoon full of sugar into the glass, pour it full, stir and drink it up quickly. No foam forms without sugar.
In James Townley's farce "High Life Below Stairs" from 1802, Lichtenberg adds an " Impromptu " that "was made over a glass of birch champagne".
Web links and references
- Google books F. Wilhelm: Chemistry in a technical relationship. Guide to lectures in vocational schools. Berlin 1840, p.381.
Remarks
- ↑ Das Hauslexikon , Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1834, Vol. I, p. 610 f.
- ^ Google Books - Townley, J .: "High Life Below Stairs, Tübingen, 1802 p.67