Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

To Make Two Gallons of Beer

Put two pounds of brown sugar in a jug, with a heaped spoonful of ginger, and a pint of strong hop tea; pour in a gallon and a half of warm water, and a tea-cup of yeast; leave out the cork a day—then fasten it up, and set it in a cool place; or if you bottle it, put two or three raisins in each bottle.