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Ginger Beer

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 pounds of loaf-sugar
• 3 ounces of strong white ginger
• 2 lemons
• 2 gallons of boiling water
• 2 large table-spoonfuls of strong yeast

Instructions

Break up the loaf-sugar, and mix with it ginger, and the grated peel of the lemons. Put these ingredients into a large stone jar, and pour boiling water over them. When it becomes milk-warm strain it, and add the juice of the lemons and the yeast. Make this beer in the evening and let it stand all night. Next morning bottle it in little half pint stone bottles, tying down the corks with twine.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).