Old Fashioned Root Beer

This was from "Excellent Recipes for Baking Raised Bread", from the Fleishman Company, 1912.

Ingredients:
One cake of compressed yeast
Five pounds of sugar
2 ounces sassafrass root
1 ounce, hops or ginger root
2 ounces juniper berries
4 gallons water
1 ounce dandelion root
2 ounces wintergreen


Directions:
Wash roots well in cold water. Add juniper berries (crushed) and hops. Pour eight-quarts boiling water over root mixture and boil slowly 20 minutes. Strain through flannel bag. Add sugar and remaining eight-quarts water. Allow to stand until lukewarm. Dissolve yeast in a little cool water. Add to root liquid. Stir will. Let settle then strain again and bottle. Cork tightly. Keep in a warm room 5 to 6 hours, then store in a cool place. Put on ice as required for use.

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