Recipe: Litha Old Fashioned Root Beer

Added By: Eira Alarches

Originated From: Source: "Excellent Recipes for Baking Raised Bread", from the Fleishman Company, 1912

Ingredients:
1 cake, compressed yeast
5 lbs, sugar
2 oz, sassafras root
1 oz, hops or ginger root
2 oz, juniper berries
4 gallons, water
1 oz, dandelion root
2 oz, wintergreen

Directions:

1. 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.

2. Dissolve yeast in a little cool water. Add to root liquid. Stir will. Let settle then strain again and bottle.

3. Cork tightly. Keep in a warm room 5 to 6 hours, then store in a cool place. Put on ice as required for use.