Name: Cider Without Apples
Ingredients: 1 gallon cold water; 1 lb common sugar; ½ tsp tartaric acid; 1 tablespoon yeast

Cider Without Apples

Ingredients

1 gallon cold water
1 lb common sugar
½ tsp tartaric acid
1 tablespoon yeast

Directions

In the evening, combine cold water, sugar, tartaric acid, and yeast in a container, then shake well to mix the ingredients.
Let it sit overnight; it will be ready for use the next day.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Common sugar: Provides the food that yeast ferments into alcohol and carbon dioxide, giving the drink its body and sweetness.
Yeast: Ferments the sugar overnight, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide that give the drink its character.
Tartaric acid: Adds a sharp, tart acidity that gives the drink a cider-like tang.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.