General Forbes’ Ginger Beer

Name: General Forbes’ Ginger Beer
Total time: 30 min
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: Water 3½ gallons; lemons 2; bruised ginger 3 oz.; loaf sugar 3 lb.; cream of tartar 1 ounce; yeast 2 tablespoonfuls (or 1 oz. compressed yeast); yeast 2 tablespoonfuls (or 1 oz. compressed yeast); 1 egg white.

Tendring Hall, Suffolk, 1857

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
30 min

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

Ingredients

Water 3½ gallons
bruised ginger 3 oz.
lemons

Europe
United Kingdom
Vegetarian
Drinks

Method

Bruise the ginger and boil it for ½ hour in water.
Wash the lemons and slice them and put them in a pan.
Add the cream of tartar and the sugar broken up.
Strain the ginger-flavoured water over the lemons, etc.
When lukewarm work (i.e. ferment) it with the yeast put on a piece of toast.
Let it stand 2 nigh