Thanks Alan. Glad to hear somebody has made it before. Can you describe the
taste? just a basic white wine...? I agree on the need to boost the flavor,
and freezing the fruit/veggie before making the wine. I was leaning towards
either bananas or raisons to add body, but I appreciate the other ideas.
Darlene


"Alan Gould" > wrote in message
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> In article >, Dar V
> > writes
>>Hello,
>>I was out in my garden yesterday, and I have an abundance of cucumbers
>>sitting in my fridge right now. Having made as many sweet pickles as I
>>care
>>to make in one year, my thoughts turned to making a wine. Anyone try this?
>>If so, how was it and do you have a recipe? If not, I was thinking of
>>using
>>my zucchini wine recipe, and trying it with cucumbers - any thoughts?
>>Thanks
>>in advance.
>
> I made a wine a long time ago from neat cucumber juice and IIRC it
> turned out to be very good. I don't recall how I extracted the juice,
> but peeling then freezing first, de-freezing, then adding sugar worked
> very well for me recently with zucchini. Cucumber would need a flavour
> boost with something like lemon, but if you are not keen on that,
> possibly lime, mint or even juniper?
> --
> Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.