Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Erken's rhubarb wine I from 1914: 15 kg rhubarb stalks and 1.5 kg raisins fermented in two extractions with a total of 50 liters water, 14 kg sugar, clarified with gelatin and orange zest, aged in a cask until Christmas and racked off with a siphon.
Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 621 (falt i det fri)
Rhubarb wine was one of the most widespread homemade wines in Norwegian households around 1900, since rhubarb grew in almost every garden. Erken reckons with large quantities and the use of a cask ("anker") in the cellar.
Clean the rhubarb
Wash the stalks, dry them, and cut them into small pieces without peeling them. Put them in a clean wooden tub or a large fermentation bucket.
Raisins and water
Rinse the raisins, chop them coarsely, and put them in the tub. Pour over 25 liters of water. The tub must not be filled more than two-thirds, as the mass swells during fermentation.
First fermentation
Set the tub in a warm place, cover it well, and stir vigorously with a ladle every day for 14 days. Then strain off the juice into another tub.
Second extraction
Pour 25 liters of fresh water over the stalks and treat the same way for 4 days. Strain off and mix with the first juice.
Sugar
Dissolve the sugar in the rhubarb juice. Strain everything into the cask or carboy and set it in a warm place to ferment. Stir it every day with a stick to speed up the fermentation.
Gelatin and orange zest
After 8 days, dissolve the gelatin in 1 dl warm water and pour it in together with the ground orange zest.
Topping up
After 3–4 weeks, when the fermentation calms down, top up with as much as 5 liters of water. Drive the bung in well.
Aging
Carry the cask down to the cellar and let it lie undisturbed until around Christmas. Then rack the wine off into another carboy or cask with a siphon. Place the carboy somewhat high in the cellar right away; if it is moved later, the wine will not become clear.
Color (optional)
For the sake of color, 250 g sugar can be burned until it is a nice brown, 0.5 liter boiling water added, and the color strained into the cask through a bag.
Measurements are kept in kilos and liters, but "del." has been converted to deciliters. "Light refined sugar" and "brown havana" are given as light sugar and dark raw cane sugar. The steps have been broken up and the language modernized; fermentation temperature and hygiene are specified in modern terms.
Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Note til Modernisert
Mål er beholdt i kilo og liter, men «del.» er omregnet til desiliter. «Lys farin» og «brun havanna» er angitt som lys sukker og mørkt rårørsukker. Trinnene er delt opp og språket modernisert; gjæringstemperatur og hygiene er presisert i moderne form.
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