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1886

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Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
It helps the understanding of what is to be dote if you have never made beer before to remember that any kind of sweetened liquor with a little yeast ad- ded will ferment' and become **pop'* in three or four days. The difference in strength of beers is according to the dif- ference of amount of sweetening in the liquor used, strong be^r or ale being made with plenty of malt and other sweetening added and small beer made by adding more water to the same malt for a second drawing. Once the method is understood it is only a question of dif- ferent flavoring to make spruce beer, gin- ger beer, or any other variety as they all go through ihe same process. 471 -Molasses Beer. Procure a 10 gallon keg and another holding 5 gallons, or a jug or two, as there will be about 15 gallons of beer. Tcke 8 ounces hops. 4 quarts coarse ground malt. 6 pounbs brown sugar. 3 pints reboiled Cuba molasses. 1 pint brewers yeast or a quart of baker's stockMolasses Beer. Boil the hops in a kettle with 2 pails of water about h »lf an hour, then pour it boiling hot over the malt, sugar, and mo- asses in a tub, stir up, let stand an hour, then strain the liquor without stirring up the sediment into a -keg. Boil 2 paila more of water, pour it to the Ynalt etc., remaining in the tub to extract the re- maining substance and when it is settled strain it into the keg along with the first, then use another pail of water the same way but it need not be boiled, only have the yeast added and when the large lot is no more than milk warm strain this yeast water into it. Lpt ferment in the kegs 2 cr 3 days, according to the temperature, keeping them full to the bung so that the yeast may work over and run off. Then cork tight and keep a week or a month as may be desired. If drawn off clear after ermenting and bottled it becomes very strong after a few w^-eks. 472— Ginger Pop. 8 quarts water. 2 ounces raw ginger pounded to pieces. 2 lemons. 3 heaping cups sugar. 2 tablespoons cream tartar. ^ cup of yeastGinger Pop. EIGHT WEEKS SUMMER RESORT. OUR DAILY BILL OF FARE AKI> WHAT IT COST. THIS sDECoi^TiD :PJ^I^T o:b* SOOKING •» B Originally Published in the "San Francisco Daily Hotel Gazette " BY Jessup Whitehead 1803. (S Entered according to Act of Congress, Jiltlie office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C Right of Translation reserved. Eight Weeks at a Summer Resort. This is my diary of a time when I went out to gain experience at a small place, as compared with our hotel magnitudes, but a first-class summer boarding house, neverthe- less, situated on the shore of that beautiful sheet of water called Uintah Lake in the State of Cornucopia. A great number of interesting questions concerning the business of boarding people for profit are to be answered in this way as will be seen as we go along, but more especially the object I have in view is to stop once for all the ceaseless inquiries of a lady friend who keeps a boarding house and is very economically disposed. This lady knows that I have been cooking for profit all my life and is aware that I have become quite indifferent in regard to the state of the market, the state of the larder, or the state of the storeroom, having learned that a good meal can be made out of very slim materials if one knows how to manage, and therefore seems to ex- pect that I can an