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      Title: Old Fashioned Root Beer
 Categories: Beverages
      Yield: 1 servings

      1    Cake, compressed yeast
      5    Pounds, sugar
      2    Ounces, sassafras root
      1    Ounce, hops or ginger root
      2    Ounces, juniper berries
      4    Gallons, water
      1    Ounce, dandelion root
      2    Ounces, wintergreen

  Wash roots well in cold  water. Add juniper berries  (crushed) and hops.
  Pour 8  quarts  boiling  water over  root  mixture  and boil  slowly  20
  minutes. Strain through  flannel bag. Add  sugar and remaining  8 quarts
  water. Allow to stand  until lukewarm. Dissolve  yeast in a  little cool
  water. Add to root liquid. Stir  will. Let settle then  strain again and
  bottle. Cork tightly. Keep in a warm room 5 to 6 hours,  then store in a
  cool place. Put on ice as required for use.

  Comments:

  This was  from  Excellent  Recipes for  Baking  Raised  Bread, from  the
  Fleishman Company, 1912.  I have never  tried this  recipe...always used
  extract from the local home brew store. Source: Thomas D. Feller
  (thomasf@deschutes.ico.tek.com) Issue #930, 7/22/92

  From: Ross Mole
From: SWEET THING #10 @4203
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