Food

1860

Sham Champagne

Take one good sized Lemon, sliced, Tartaric Acid, 1 table-spoonful; Ginger-root, bruised, 1 oz.; white Sugar 1 1/2 lb.; pour upon them 2 1/2 gals. boiling water let stand until cooled to blood heat and add a gill of good yeast and let it stand in the sun through the day, at night bottle, tieing the corks and in 2 days it will be fit to use. Mrs. Beecher. Be sure and not drink over 3 or 4 bottles at, one time.