Name: Artificial Cider Without Apples
Ingredients: 1 gallon cold water; 1 lb dark brown sugar; ½ oz tartaric acid; 3 tablespoons yeast

Artificial Cider Without Apples

Ingredients

1 gallon cold water
1 lb dark brown sugar
½ oz tartaric acid
3 tablespoons yeast

Directions

Make the mixture

Combine cold water, dark brown sugar, tartaric acid, and yeast in a container.
Shake well to mix the ingredients.

Prepare ahead

Prepare this mixture in the evening for use the next day.

Adjust and serve

If it gets a little sour, add more ingredients to improve the flavor.
Serve chilled with ice in hot weather or bottle and store in a cool cellar if sales are slow.

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.