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To Make Superior Ginger Beer

ger Beer. Boil 44 ounces of ginger with 11 Take 10 pounds of sugar, 9 ounces lemon quarts water; beat up 4 eggs to a froth, and juice, 1/2 pound honey, 11 ounces bruised add them with 9 pounds sugar to the preceding. Take 9 lemons, peel them carefully, and the oil from them, and put it with the remainadd the rind and juice to the foregoing. Put the whole into a barrel, add 3 spoonfuls of yeast, bung down the barrel, and in about 12 days bottle it off. In 15 days it will be fit for drinking, but it improves by keeping. der of the sugar into a jug; add the lemon juice (but no pips), and pour over the whole a quart boiling water. When the sugar is dissolved, strain the lemonade through a piece of muslin, and, when cool, it will be ready

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