Ginger Beer
He piped the ginger beer into Nellie Newchurch’s “Parkin Cake Parlour”, where Brendan, an Irish Leprechaun, bottled the ginger beer and drank most of it. Such was the fame of the Sabden Ginger Beer as a by-product of treacle, that all parties were obliged to supply more ginger beer than any other drink. With such a large demand, stocks soon ran out. But, when Nellie Newton came to the rescue by giving out her recipe for “Making Ginger Beer”
You need a large jar! PUT IN a) 6 level tspns of dried (granulated) yeast. 1. When the froth has died down, cover the jar with a cloth - a square cotton cloth held in place with a rubber band. 2. Every day, for seven days, add one spoonful of sugar and one spoonful of ginger; stir well and cover up jar again. 3. On the eighth day stir in the juice of two large lemons. 4. Strain into a big clean bowl or bucket. 5. Add eight pints of cold water and half a pound of sugar and the thin grated rind of the two lemons; stir well and cover up and leave. 6. The SLUDGE left after the mixture is strained is very
fascinating. THE WHOLE PROCESS STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN In seven more days you can start four new plants, and
so on. It’s a good idea to give some away or open up your own Ginger Beer
Factory! (otherwise throw away what you don’t need) Otherwise your kitchen
will be full of ginger beer plants. It’s called a plant because the yeast
is a living, growing organism like a plant. 8. Drink after about two days and not more than two weeks after it was bottled. N.B. The basic mixture made from the above recipe MUST be diluted as described in paragraph 5. The initial process in this recipe produces alcohol through fermentation. Dilution as recommended is essential to ensure that the alcohol content of the ginger beer in minimal. From "Treacle Alice's Cookbook"
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