Ginger Beer. No. 4.

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
Time
Cook: 20 min Total: 20 min
Yield
10.0 gallons
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (6)
Instructions (9)
  1. Mix water, loaf sugar, and egg whites together when cold.
  2. Set the mixture on the fire and skim it as it boils.
  3. Add bruised ginger and boil the whole together for twenty minutes.
  4. In a pint of the boiling liquor, put an ounce of isinglass.
  5. When the isinglass mixture is cold, add it to the rest.
  6. Put the whole mixture, with two spoonfuls of yest, into a cask.
  7. Next day, bung it down loosely.
  8. In ten days bottle it.
  9. In a week it will be fit for use.
Original Text
Ginger Beer. No. 4. Ten gallons of water, twelve pounds of loaf sugar, the whites of four eggs, well beaten; mix them together when cold, and set them on the fire: skim it as it boils. Add half a pound of bruised ginger, and boil the whole together for twenty minutes. Into a pint of the boiling liquor put an ounce of isinglass; when cold, add it to the rest, and put the whole, with two spoonfuls of yest, into a cask: next day, bung it down loosely. In ten days bottle it, and in a week it will be fit for use.
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