This is a recipe I was given by my late mother, Teresa Denton, who adored ginger beer. It brings back wonderfully warm memories of my childhood. I now love to make my own ginger beer! It tastes so much better than bought stuff.
The ‘plant’ you make works well for about 4 ‘lives’, but after that you will need to start afresh.
Start your ‘plant’:
1/2 cake yeast
2 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp sugar
2 cups warm water
Every day for 7 days add:
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp ground ginger
After a week, strain ‘plant’ through cloth
Dilute mixture with 14 cups of cold water
Make syrup:
- 4 cups boiling water
- 3 cups sugar
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Add syrup slowly to strained ginger mixture
- Fill bottles with ginger beer to 6cm from top
- Screw down securely & refrigerate
Leave for 1 week
Sediment left on cloth is new ‘plant’
Divide in half, put sediment into 2 separate jars
Add to each:
- 2 cups water
- 2 tsp sugar
- 2 tsp ginger
You now have 2 plants to feed.
Enjoy your homemade ginger beer served ice cold and add your own extras.
Do let me know how you get on: dawn@dawnadenton.com
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