Recipes - Misc - Ginger Beer Plant

Start the Plant:

2 teaspoons yeast
2 Tablespoons sugar
125 ml warm water

Mix together and allow to stand overnight then add:
1 teaspoon ginger
100 ml water

Every Day feeding thereafter:

Add one teaspoon ginger and one teaspoon sugar to plant.
Give it a good stir.

Every Friday

Strain Juice through cloth and reserve.
Divide sediment in half, discarding one half.

To remaining half of sediment add:

1 cup water
2 heaped teaspoons ginger
2 teaspoons sugar
Then return plant to every day feeding routine.

Ginger Beer

Dissolve 3 cups sugar in one litre hot water.
Add 3 litres cold water and 60 ml bottled lemon juice or the juice of 2 lemons.
Add reserved juice strained off plant.
Bottle for one week before using.

Makes about 4 ½ litres weekly.

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