My mother was going through some of my great grandfather's stuff she's had in her basement for many years. She found a recipe neatly tucked away in his 1888-1892 expense ledger:
1 lb raisins
1/4 lb prunes
2 1/2 lb sugar
1/4 lb caraway seed
1/2 cake yeast
1 gallon boiling water, make tea out of caraway seed and put in water and mix well. Add yeast and when not to hot and let it stand two or three weeks and mix every day.
It doesn't have a name, and I haven't tried making it yet, but I thought I'd share it. I plan on making this sometime next week, so I'll also share my thoughts on it.
1 lb raisins
1/4 lb prunes
2 1/2 lb sugar
1/4 lb caraway seed
1/2 cake yeast
1 gallon boiling water, make tea out of caraway seed and put in water and mix well. Add yeast and when not to hot and let it stand two or three weeks and mix every day.
It doesn't have a name, and I haven't tried making it yet, but I thought I'd share it. I plan on making this sometime next week, so I'll also share my thoughts on it.