1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 94.

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Ginger Beer

a pleasant beverage.

Take 10 pounds white sugar.

9 iluidouuces lemon-juice. 1 pound honey. 11 ounces ginger, (ground.)

Boil the ginger in 3 gallons water for J hour; then add the sugar, the lemon-juice, and the rest of the water, and strain through a cloth. "When cold, add the white of an Qgg, J fluidounce essence of lemon. After standing 4 days, it may be bottled A glass of this on a hot day, with a lump of off.

ice in it, is very refreshing.

No. 95.

make Ginger Beer Powders.

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Take 1 ounce and 54 grains (apothecaries') bicar- bonate of soda, reduce it to powder, and divide into 16 papers ; to each paper add 5 grains ground ginger, and a draclim of white sugar. Then take 1 ounce tartaric acid, which powder divide into 16 parcels, and do it up in separate papers. Two of these papers will make a pint of beer. Dissolve the soda in 2 gills of water in one glass, and the acid in 2 gills in another glass; pour them together, and B\\-allow quickly.

No. 96. How to make Ginger- Pop.

Take 2 gallons hot water, (boiling;) mix 2 ounces ground ginger and the peel of 2 lemons, 1 teaspoon-