Take two drachms of fine loaf sugar, eight grains of ginger, and
twenty-six grains of carbonate of Potash, (all in fine powder) ; mix them
intimately in a Wedg wood's-ware mortar. Take also, twenty-seven
grains of citric or tartaric acid✪ To Prepare Ginger Beer Powders, (the first is the pleasantest, but the last
the cheapest.) The acid is to be kept separately from the mixture.
The beer is prepared from the powders thus: — take two tumbler glasses,
each half filled with water; stir up the compound powder in one of
them, and the acid powder in the other; then mix the two liquors. An
effervescence takes place — the beer is prepared — and may be drunk off
directly, or it will become flat.
FINIS.
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Take two drachms of fine loaf sugar, eight grains of ginger, and twenty-six grains of carbonate of Potash, (all in fine powder) ; mix them intimately in a Wedgwood's-ware mortar. Take also, twenty-seven grains of citric or tartaric acid, (the first is the pleasantest, but the last the cheapest.) The acid is to be kept separately from the mixture. The beer is prepared from the powders thus: — take two tumbler glasses, each half filled with water; stir up the compound powder in one of them, and the acid powder in the other; then mix the two liquors. An effervescence takes place — the beer is prepared — and may be drunk off directly, or it will become flat.
FINIS.
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