Boston Cream and Ginger Beer
Dear Aunt Daisy, Please could you supply me with the recipe for Boston Cream-an old-fash-ioned drink? Also the recipe for a ginger beer plant using yeast? Please answer in The Listener. Thank you.Drinks, Nelson. BOSTON CREAM (1): Pour 3 pints of boiling water over 212 Ib. sugar. Add 2 oz. of citric or tartaric. acid. Stir well, and when cool add 1 good dessertspoon of lemon essence, Bottle cold and use a tablespoon of this and a pinch of baking soda to a glass of water. BOSTON CREAM (2) (with eggwhites): Two pounds sugar, 2 teaspoons essence of lemon, 41/2 pints water, 2 ega@ whites, 2 oz. tartaric acid. Boil sugar and water 2 or -3 minutes, add acid. When nearly cold add essence of lemon, whites of eggs (beaten) and beat up. To a glass of water add 2 tablespoons syrup and stir in pinch of baking soda, GINGER BEER (with yeast): Put following into 2-quart jar-I1 small cup
warm water, I dessertspoon sugar, 1 dessertspoon 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 luke-warm, 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 to the 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 1 inch plant in jar.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 934, 5 July 1957, Page 23
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292Boston Cream and Ginger Beer New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 934, 5 July 1957, Page 23
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