Ginger Beer Plant
Dear Aunt Daisy, My neighbour and I are very fond of ginger beer, and would like to make our own. However, we do not know how to pfoduce a plant for the purpose. We are ardent listetiers to your session, and would be grateful if you could enlighten us. "M.M.C.," Glen Eden. Here is the teal old proved plant. Put irito large 2-quart jat: 1 stall éup warm watet, 1 dessertspoon sugar, 1 déssertspoon ground ginget, 2 teaspoons cémprésséd yeast dissolvéd in a little warm water. Let all stand 24 hours, This is the plant. In a iug mix 1 small cup sugar, 1 teaspoon ground ginger, 1 cutup lemon without the white pith. Add enough hot water to dissolve the sugar, add cold water to make it luke warm, then powr on to the plant. Then fill the jat up, and leavé 24 hours. Strain off through muslin, bottle and cork tightly. Make up another mixture as beforé, arid pour on plant. Never leave moré than 24 hours. If plant géts too hot it may he divided or thrown out, Nevet have more than 1% to Y inch plant in the jar.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 756, 15 January 1954, Page 16
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196Ginger Beer Plant New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 756, 15 January 1954, Page 16
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