Five Roses Cook Book

Two thousand Canadian cooks sent in their best recipes; the mill printed them, and put its own flour in every one.

Beverages

5 recipes in this part of Five Roses Cook Book.

Grape Wine

Take 1 gallon of grapes and add 1 gallon of water after bruising the grapes. Let stand for 8 days and then draw it off. To each gallon of…

Ginger Beer

Put in a kettle 2 ounces whole ginger, ½ ounce cream of tartar, 2 lemons cut in very thin slices, 2 pounds white sugar, 2 gallons boiling…

Hop Beer

Boil and strain one handful of hops, and add 1 pint of molasses and enough water to make 2 gallons. When lukewarm. add 1 cake of yeast and…

Lemonade Syrup

2 pounds brown sugar 6 lemons 1½ pints water 2 ounces tartaric acid. Boil sugar and water to a thin syrup, then add lemon juice. Let boil a…

Orangeade

4 pounds white sugar 2 ounces citric acid. Grate the yellow skin (not the white part) of the oranges, add the acid and sugar, and scald…

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