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Hop Beer

Ingredients

• 6 ounces of hops
• 4 ounces of bruised ginger root
• 4 pounds of sugar
• 1 pint of yeast

Instructions

Take five quarts of water, and the hops, boil it three hours; then strain the liquor, add to it five quarts of water, ginger root; boil this again twenty minutes, strain and add sugar. When luke-warm put in yeast. Let it ferment; in twenty-four hours it will be ready for bottling.

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Source

The White House Cookbook (1887).