Ginger Beer from a ‘Plant’

• ½oz fresh yeast
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons

Mix all these ingredients. Leave for twenty-four hours, then feed daily with one teaspoon ground ginger and one teaspoon sugar. After seven days, strain through a cloth. Reserve both the liquid and the solid matter in the cloth (which is the ‘plant’).

To finish the ginger beer, mix the strained liquid with five pints cold water, the juice of two lemons and 1½lb sugar dissolved in two pi