Ginger Wine

Ingredients

• 3 gallons water
• 3 pounds sugar
• 4 ounces race ginger
• 3 lemons lemons
• 2 gills beer yeast

Instructions

1. To three gallons of water, put three pounds of sugar and four ounces of race ginger, washed in many waters to cleanse it.
2. Boil them together for one hour, and strain it through a sieve.
3. When lukewarm, put it in a cask with three lemons cut in slices and two gills of beer yeast.
4. Shake it well and stop the cask very tight.
5. Let it stand a week to ferment; and if not clear enough to bottle, it must remain until it becomes so.
6. It will be fit to drink in ten days after bottling.