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Julie M. Clagett cookbook, 1908-1914
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Cream beer 2 oz Tartaric acid, 2 lbs white sugar, juice of 1/2 a lemon, 3 pts water, Boil together 5 min. When nearly cold add the whites of 3 eggs well beaten, half a cup flour, 1/2 oz essence wintergreen. Bottle, & keep in a cool place. Take 2 tablespoonful of this syrup for a tumbler of water; & add 1/4 teaspoonful soda. It will effervesce slowly. Ginger beer No 2 Pour 2 gals boiling water on 2 lbs bro sugar, 1 1/2 oz cream tartar, same of pounded ginger, stir well, & put in a cask. When milk warm, put in 1/2 pt good yeast. Shake the cask well, & stop it close. In 24 hours it will be fit to bottle. Tie down the corks, & in 10 days, it well sparkle like champagne. One or two lemons stired into it, improve the flavour. For economy you may substitute a pt of molasses for 2 lbs sugar. Cherry shrub. Pick from the stems, & crush Morella cherries. Put them into a jar & set in a pot of water. Let the water boil till the juice is extracted; be careful not to let any get into the juice. Strain through a cloth, which
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Cream beer 2 oz Tartaric acid, 2 lbs white sugar, juice of 1/2 a lemon, 3 pts water, Boil together 5 min. When nearly cold add the whites of 3 eggs well beaten, half a cup flour, 1/2 oz essence wintergreen. Bottle, & keep in a cool place. Take 2 tablespoonful of this syrup for a tumbler of water; & add 1/4 teaspoonful soda. It will effervesce slowly. Ginger beer No 2 Pour 2 gals boiling water on 2 lbs bro sugar, 1 1/2 oz cream tartar, same of pounded ginger, stir well, & put in a cask. When milk warm, put in 1/2 pt good yeast. Shake the cask well, & stop it close. In 24 hours it will be fit to bottle. Tie down the corks, & in 10 days, it well sparkle like champagne. One or two lemons stired into it, improve the flavour. For economy you may substitute a pt of molasses for 2 lbs sugar. Cherry shrub. Pick from the stems, & crush Morella cherries. Put them into a jar & set in a pot of water. Let the water boil till the juice is extracted; be careful not to let any get into the juice. Strain through a cloth, which
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