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Jamaica Ginger-beer

A historical recipe from Common Sense in the Household, by Marion Harland (1880).

A historical recipe

Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery, by Marion Harland (1880). Project Gutenberg eBook #48804.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From Common Sense in the Household, by Marion Harland (1880). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #48804 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48804). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Jamaica. Associated with Jamaica by a demonym leading its title: Jamaica (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. 1 bottle Jamaica Ginger Extract.
  2. 1 oz.
  3. cream-tartar.
  4. 6 quarts water.
  5. 1 lb.
  6. sugar.
  7. Stir until the sugar is melted, then put in the grated peel of a lemon, and heat until blood-warm.
  8. Add a tablespoonful of brewers’ yeast;
  9. stir well and bottle, wiring down the corks.
  10. It will be fit for use in four days.
  11. This is a refreshing and healthful beverage mixed with pounded ice in hot weather.