Classic Root Beer Recipe
This was from "Excellent Recipes for Baking Raised Bread", from the Fleishman Company, 1912.
Ingredients:
One small handful bloodroot
One small handful prickly ash bark
Eight large handfuls spikenard root
Eight large handfuls sasparilla
One handful hops
Two handfuls cherry bark
Two handfuls popple bark
Four handfuls burdock root
Four handfuls dandelion root
1 cup yeast
Sugar to taste
Directions:
Wash roots and barks thoroughly, and cover with water in a large kettle.
Boil slowly until their strength is extracted. Strain, dilute and sweeten
to taste; when cool add yeast and let stand 24 hours. Bottle or cork
tightly in large stone jugs. If spruce twigs or wintergreen can be
obtained, use them also, for they will improve the beer.
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