5 Ib. blackberries

6 oz. raisins

3 1/4 Ib. sugar

6 pints boiling water

Campden tablet

Pectozyme

Nutrient

Port-wine yeast

Mash the blackberries, add the chopped raisins, then pour on the boiling water. When cool add a teaspoonful of pectozyme and a Campden tablet. Next day stir in 1 Ib sugar, the nutrient and the yeast, ferment on the pulp for three days, pressing down the cap twice each day, then strain, stir in another 1 1/2 Ib. of sugar and continue the fermentation, adding the remaining 3/4 Ib. of sugar in three 4 oz. doses as the S.G. falls below 1.010.