An Old-Fashioned Recipe For Root Beer

“There’s an old-fashioned charm to homemade root beer with its odd array of roots and bark, flowers, leaves and berries.

It, like many other fermented beverages, once enjoyed position as a staple of American cookery.

Water, as you know, was not always potable and raw milk, small beers, cider, perry and other fermented beverages were consumed as the drink of choice – even for small children.

For a time, each community and each family enjoyed a closely guarded homemade root beer recipe…”

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