Ginger Beer "Plant"

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 450, 6 February 1948, Page 22

Ginger Beer "Plant"

Dear Aunt Daisy, Have you the recipe to start ginger-beer-the sugar and ginger one? A friend of mine gave me the "bug," as some people call it, but I broke the jug and now cannot start it again. |

Balclutha

Yes, here is the good old ginger beer plant recipe-almost a pioneer one, Into a large 2 quart jar put the following: 1 small cup warm water; 1 déessertspoon sugar; 1 teaspoon ground. ginger; 2 teaspoons compressed yeast dissolved in a little warm water. Let all stand 24 hours, This is the "plant." In a jug mix 1 small cup sugar; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; 1 cut up lemon, without the white pith, Add enough hot water to dissolve the sugar, add cold water to make it lukewarm, then’ pour on to the plant. Then fill the jar right up, and leave 24 hours. Strain off through muslin, bottle and cork tightly. Make up another mixture as before, and

pour on plant. Never leave more than 24 hours, If plant gets too "hot" it may | be divided or thrown out. Never have more than 4 to 2 inch plant in the jar. Here is a more modern arid quite an easy recipe for a ginger beer which does not require bottling. Boil in about a quart of water 112 tablespoons ground ginger; 3 cups sugar. Pour through sieve into jug. Have clean 1-gallon bottle or jar, and half fill with cold water. Four in the hot syrup, add 1 tablespoon yeast, and fill the jar with more cold water. Leave about 24 hours, uncorked. Pour off about a cup from the top, cork, and drink as wanted.