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Puffer's Root Beer

Prince's pine, 2 ounces; wild cherry, 2 ounces; hemlock bark, 2 ounces; wintergreen, 4 ounces; sassafras bark, 4 ounces; birch bark, 4 ounces; 4 gallons water, 1 ounce each sarsaparilla, Solspice bark, 4 ounces; Jamaica ginger, 2 ounces; white mustard seed, 1 ounce. Put in a percolator and cover with boiling water; let it stand till cold, then strain; add to it enough boiling water to make 4 gallons. Take 1 gallon of this, add 1 gallon of molasses, or the same amount of syrup; to this add 8 gallons of water and about 1 pint of yeast. 1 pint of

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