🍲 Sockerdricka (Swedish Ginger Drink)

Name: Sockerdricka (Swedish Ginger Drink)
Ingredients: 20 litres water; Peel of 1 lemon; 1 kg white granulated sugar; 60 g yeast; 25 g ginger; Raisins

Drinks · 6 ingredients · 5 steps

Sockerdricka (Swedish for "sugar drink") is a soft drink from the 19th century. It is traditionally a fermented drink that contains ginger, but modern commercial versions consist of carbonated water, some sugar, and citric acid.

This recipe states no serving size, so the quantities are left exactly as written.

Ingredients

20 litres water
Peel of 1 lemon
1 kg white granulated sugar
60 g yeast
25 g ginger
Raisins

Method

Boil the sugar, water, lemon and crushed ginger for 15 minutes.
Strain the mixture and let it cool.
Mix in the yeast and let the mixture ferment for 2 days.
Put the drink in bottles, and add a raisin to each bottle.
Cork the bottles, and let rest for 5 days. After 5 days the sockerdricka is ready for drinking.

Where this came from. Adapted from Sockerdricka (Swedish Ginger Drink) in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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