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Dissatisfied with home wine kits? Leave all that chemical taste behind, with a simple, cheap and tasty recipe for real home-made wine.

Take a regular 1Kg - 2Kg marrow. Cut the last three inches off the stalk end, and remove the seeds with a large spoon. These may be discarded, but save that cut-off end...

Stand the marrow on its flower-end, and support it with a small bowl or similar structure. Fill the marrow with demerara (soft brown) sugar, replace that stalk end and place the marrow in your airing cupboard / closet. Check the level daily, adding sugar to top-up the marrow.

After ten days, decant the contents of the marrow into a sterile demijohn (wine-making flask) and top up to two-thirds full with cold, sterile water. The sugar/marrow syrup will ferment naturally. Insert an air-trap in the neck of the demijohn and place back in the cupboard / closet.

When the bubbles from the trap stop, the wine is ready. Fill clean (sterile) green bottles with the wine, and label. Marrow rum stores well, and has a very clean taste.

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