Homemade beer recipe in endangered book; need your vote
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Eliza Watts, keeper of the Historical Society of Western Virginia’s 1818-1857 receipt book, which is a VAM Top 10 Endangered Artifact, also kept recipes for drinks. In one recipe she details the making of beer:
Beer – easily made, and very pleasant for summer use –
To 6 quarts of water and one pint of molasses, one of good bread yeast, a table spoon full of cream of tarter and one of ginger beaten fine. Stir all well together – cover [illegible] with something that will exclude the air, and bottle as soon as it begins to ferment. It will be fit for use in 12 hours but is best at 2 days old.
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