Name: Ciders.— Artilieialy or Cider Without Apples
Ingredients: 1 gallon cold water; 1 lb dark brown sugar; ½ oz tartaric acid; 3 tablespoons yeast

Ciders.— Artilieialy or 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 this mixture in the evening for use the next day.

Use and store

If it becomes sour, add more of the mixture.
Serve chilled with ice 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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Dark brown sugar: Provides sweetness and food for the yeast to ferment into alcohol and carbonation.
Yeast: Ferments the sugar, producing the alcohol and carbon dioxide that give the drink its character.
Tartaric acid: Adds the sharp, tart acidity that makes the drink taste like cider.

“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.