Cover with boiling water, mash and add suplhite if using. Result? Gooseberry Champagne Cocktail. Strain out the solids and stir sugar into the still warm gooseberry juice. Great tasting (but a little explosive!) Gooseberry Champagne 3 lbs gooseberries 1.5lb sugar 1 litre white grape juice juice of 1 lemon 1/2 mug black tea yeast starter sulphite (if using) pectic enzyme Champagne yeast Champagne bottles, corks and muzzles 1. /// Directions /// The gooseberry blend will give you at least two cocktail starters (depending on how big your glasses are). This Gooseberry Piri Piri recipe from chef Kwame Onwuachi gets its flavor from fresh gooseberries and yellow tomatoes. Made two gallons of gooseberry wine in 2009, bottled 2010. Blend using an immersion blender. Sugar – add more or less than in the recipe to change the sweetness of the flavour. Once you master the basic recipe, you can easily change the ingredients to achieve a different flavour result. Whilst it is no longer permitted to use the name 'Champagne' forl wines made outside of the Champagne region in France ', here is the all-important recipe to make your own very fine-quality sparkling wine using the same method as used in France; what you decide to call it is up to you! The cocktail really is quite easy to make and this recipe creates a double, either to share or to enjoy all yourself - I won't judge! if you want to do it cleanly, get some of the "condessa" shampagne corks with sediment tube, when sediment in, bend over, tie down, and its trapped when "popping". Put rinsed gooseberries in sterilised bucket. Leave the mixture to ferment, again covered with muslin, for a further four days. Date, 13 June 1842. Get the recipe from Food & Wine. Normally, my elderflower champagne has a very pleasant, but mild fizzy taste with the zing of lemons and is slightly on the sweet side. The recipe is addressed to Mrs Kerr, Hawkhill House. 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