Homemade Ginger Beer
There's a great site about making homemade ginger beer at: http://www.summrfld.demon.co.uk/ging3.htm Al's Ginger Beer Recipe Yield: 14 x 10 oz bottles 1 Ginger root 1 Lemon, grated rind only 2 oz Cream of tartar 1 1/2 lb Sugar 1 gallon Water; boiling 1 Envelope yeast Grate and thoroughly mash the ginger root in a bowl. Place in a large pot and add all ingredients except the yeast. Stir until sugar and cream of tartar is dissolved. Allow mixture to cool, then add yeast which has been started ( dissolved) in a little lukewarm water. Cover tightly for 6 hours, then filter first through a tea strainer or similar, then through cloth. Bottle and cap tightly, sealed. Place in dark, cool (60 degree) place for two weeks. Chill fully before opening to drink. Lemon-based Ginger beer Recipe is for 1.5 L plastic bottle 2 T. warm water 1/2 tsp. sugar 1/4 tsp. dried yeast granules 1 cup sugar juice of 2 lemons rind of 2 lemons 1 tsp. to 1 T. dried ginger Put first measure of sugar in warm water to dissolve, add yeast and stir. Place in warm place to start working. Finely grate or slice rind from 2 lemons and place in a heatproof container with the 1 cup of sugar and the dried ginger. Pour over 1 cup of boiling water and leave to steep for 10 minutes. Strain into 1.5 L plastic bottle in which the ginger beer will be made. Top up bottle with cool water to near top so that final temp is approx. body temp. Add yeast to bottle as soon as it shows signs of working, ie. it foams. Cap bottle tightly. Mix thoroughly and put in a warm place. Leave until bottle becomes undentable. Depending on the yeast this can take anything from 12 hours to 3 days, but best to check regularly, as I guess there is a risk of explosion with this! Refrigerate until thoroughly chilled and OPEN WITH GREAT CARE! This recipe came from the ChCh Press a couple of years back and makes excellent ginger beer. You can also add more sugar afterwards if you like it sweeter. Starting a plant 1. take 1/2 oz fresh bakers yeast mixed with 1 pint of warm water in a covered jug. 2. Every day feed the above mixture with 1 teaspoon sugar and 1 teaspoon ground ginger and stir. 3. After one week, leave to stand for 24 hours and strain off the clear liquor. 4. Make a sugar solution of 1 lb sugar to 4 pints water, add the liquor to this and bottle in strong plastic bottles and store. 5. Divide the original plant into two and add one pint water and feed daily as before. The plant must be split each week or it will die. 6. Leave the bottled ginger beer for one week (if you can) before consumption. Comments The above made strong, but very nice ginger beer. Impatience lead us making the beer and drinking it well before the week was up (we waited 4 days for the plant to grow and 2 days before drinking!) http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m063001.htm Sugar Syl says: Good friends are like stars ... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
