Ginger (Admiral Etheridge)

Ingredients

• 1 lb Lump Sugar
• 2 oz best Ginger
• 3 Lemons
• 2 gallons boiling Water
• 1 oz Cream of Tartar
• 1 tablespoonful yeast on toast
• 1 egg white

Instructions

1. Combine the lump sugar, cut or bruised ginger, lemon juice and peel, and cream of tartar with 2 gallons of boiling water.
2. Allow the mixture to cool.
3. Once cool, add a tablespoonful of yeast on toast and let it stand for twelve hours.
4. Strain through a coarse cloth.
5. Bottle and tie the corks down firmly.
6. If using within three days, add the white of one well-beaten egg just before corking as an improvement.