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Ginger Wine

Ingredients

• 14 quarts of water
• 3 pounds of loaf sugar
• 1 ounce of ginger sliced thin
• whites of 2 eggs
• 3 lemons
• 1 quart of brandy
• white bread toast, covered on both sides with yeast

Instructions

Take the water, loaf sugar, and ginger, boil these together half an hour, fine it with the whites; when new milk warm put in the lemons, brandy, and a white bread toast, covered on both sides with yeast; put all these together into a stand, and work it in one day; then tun it: It will be ready to bottle in five days, and be ready to drink in a week after it is bottled.

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Source

English Housewifry (1764).