Beet Wine - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 lb. beets
3 lb. sugar
6 cloves
1/2 oz. yeast
1 1/2 gal. boiling water

Preparation

Wash beets, but do not peel them.
Cut up in slices and add boiling water.
Bring back to a boil and simmer until tender. Strain with a sieve or cheesecloth.
Add sugar and cloves to juice and heat to dissolve sugar.
Stir all the time.
Cool until lukewarm.
Put in a bowl or crock.
Spread yeast on a slice of toast and place on juice.
Cover for 3 days, then remove toast. Strain and bottle.
Cork and bottle loosely at first.
Add one piece of hard sugar candy to each bottle in 4 or 5 days.
Ready in 6 months or more.