Ginger Beer

Refreshing drink that just goes on and on! Great recipe for sharing:-)

Ingredients:

• 3 oz baker's yeast
• 2 teacups cold water
• 2 tsp. ground ginger
• 2 tsp. sugar

Directions:

Put the following ingredients in a jar. Feed daily with 1 level teaspoon sugar + 1 level teaspoon ginger for 7 days. Then strain liquid through a fine muslin. Dissolve 3/4 lb sugar in 1 pint boiling water. Add 3.5 pints cold water and add strained liquid. Add juice of 2 lemons.

Bottle in screw top bottles to within 2 cm of top. Leave 2 - 3 weeks before using.

Scrape residue of plant into jar. Add 3/4 pint of cold water and mix well. Divide into 2; add sugar and ginger as before.

Note: Plant (fermentation) MUST be divided (halved) each week or it will die!

Source: Got a 'plant' from someone years ago.

By Skinnyjinny from Scotland