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      Title: Root Beer
 Categories: Beverages
      Yield: 1 servings

      2 ga Of water
  1 1/2    Cups, honey
      3    Tablespoons, ground
           -sarsaparilla
      1    Tablespoon, sassafras
      1    Heaping tablespoon, hops
    1/4    Teaspoon, ground coriander
    1/4    Teaspoon, wintergreen
           -extract (Almost all
           -natural)
    1/4    Teaspoon, yeast

  Place the sarsaparilla, sassafras, hops, and  coriander into an enameled or
  stainless  steel pan.  Cover them  with water  and bring  to a  boil.
  Reduce the  heat and  allow them  to just  barely simmer  for 12  hours,
  making sure the water does not all evaporate. Strain  out the solids and
  add the liquid to 2 gallons of water that has been  boiled and cooled to
  lukewarm.  Stir  in  the  honey,  wintergreen  extract,  and  the  yeast
  dissolved in 2/3 cup warm  water. Stir the mixture  thoroughly and allow it
  to mellow for  several hours. You can  then siphon off the  root beer into
  a clean container before bottling, or fill the bottles immediately. Makes 2
  1/4 gallons

  Comments: Source: Bob Gorman (semantic!bob@uunet.UU.NET) Issue #685,
  7/23/91

  Recipes from Early  American Life,  August 1975,  Pg 12,  titled "Making
  Your Own Soda Pop", by Caroline Kitchen Riddle.

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