1903 The Complete Buffet Guide or How to Mix All Kinds of Drinks by V.B. Lewis

The Complete Buffet Guide, or

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MOLASSES BEER. Mix four quarts molasses with 13 gallons water and 3 oz. hops; boil for half an hour; strain and add half pint of yeast.

PLANTATION BEER.

3 bunches wintergreen. 3 bunches sarsaparilla. 3 bunches sassafras . 3 bunches sweet fern. 3 bunches spicewood. 3 bunches Prince pine.

Grind above together in a mill. Heat 8 gallons water. Put in the ingredients while the water is hot; boil 1 hour; strain, and then boil U lb. hops in three gallons water. Strain and mix with the other, adding 1 gallon molasses. Brown a loaf of bread ; soak it in brewers' yeast; put all together in a ten gallon keg let it ferment, and when, done beat the white of an egg to a froth. Stir thoroughly into the beer and bung the keg; let it stand until clear and bottle for use.

ROOT BEER.

1 oz. yellow dock. r oz. wintergreen. 1 oz. sassafras. 1 oz. allspice. ~ oz. coriander. U oz. wild cherry bark. }( oz. ·hops.