Here is one of my favorite beverages, homemade Root Beer. If you follow the directions you will have a very pleasant and healthy drink your whole family will enjoy.
Directions
Sarsaparilla root can be used as a dye plant although it has a tendency to fade. It was formerly used in the making of root beer, so much so that the flavor has been duplicated synthetically and the root is no longer present in the beer.
Harris said that his grandfather made a good homemade root beer with more or less equal parts of Sarsaparilla, burdock, dandelion roots, sassafras bark and red clover.
Dr. Christopher gave a good recipe for root beer. If you are going to serve root beer to the kids, start ahead of time and give them the genuine article.
- 2 ounces Sarsaparilla root
- 2 ounces Sassafras root bark
- 1 ½ ounces wintergreen herb
- ½ ounce tansy
- ¼ tsp. Baking yeast or Wine yeast
- 1 pint molasses (NOT Blackstrap)
- 1 Gallon Distilled Water
- 1 ½ Gallons Distilled Water–Lukewarm
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