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Soda Mead

From Cooking for profit, 1886

Serves 8

The gum is to produce foam; white of egg can also be used but does not keep long.

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 129. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 quart water. 2 ounces of whole spices consisting of equal quantities of cloves, stick cinna- mon, ginger, coriander, seed and carda— mons. 1 tablespoon powdered gum arable. 4 pounds honey

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