My boy has been making a gallon of this starting in 2004, around the Holidays, for everybody to enjoy. He makes it without hops, I add hops to mine. Here are both recipes. “ When you burp, mine tastes like ginger ale and yours like beer, Dad” He figured 30 cents a bottle in 2004, I figure $1 per bottle now, if you have to buy the hops, otherwise 90 cents. We use the gingerpeels as well, they have more nutrients than the flesh.

Spicy thick liquid honey syrup for use in teas, hot wines, and other hot drinks, and a very precise way to add ginger flavor to cakes, breads, cookies and sauces. Simple to make, stays fresh a year in your pantry.

Run Golden Delicious or Granny Smith apple peels, cores, quartered, blemished and dropped apples in three pound batches through the tabletop press. Three lbs. of apples make a pint of juice. The left over mash is a special treat for the horses. Ten pounds of apples make one pound of apple syrup. Apple syrup is used to make Sauerbraten dishes.

A low alcohol version of the traditional margarita, using sparkling apple cider as the alcohol carrier for the drink, with lime and 2 Tbs Tequila or Mescal and Cointreau per tall glass for flavor. My friend Jane tasted this in West Virginia and recommended I make this summer drink with my home made apple cider. Thank you, Jane. Refreshing, and the drink ended up 4% alcohol, 3% with ice, lighter than light beer.

We have an authentic old Italian food grade tabletop wine press, stainless steel, from Francesco Palumbo, two quart/liter capacity, and a matching capacity sauerkraut crock pot with airlock.You can use a hand lemon press if you dont have a table press and punch a hole in a mason jar lid to put an airlock in. We make wine and fruit liqueurs and other fermented drinks and foods with those two. This recipe is for one quart of peach beer. I make two batches. You can also liquify the peaches in your food processor. Use with a strainer cheesecloth bag and a quart mason jar with an airlock ( amazon, $4 ). Same recipe.

If you can make soup, you can make beer. We brew home made delicious California common beer in winter, 50 pint bottles per batch. It takes a month to make 50 bottles, we use all four cold winter months to make four batches. Here is our foolproof recipe.

Sipping lemon juice and agave with frozen pineapple cubes from a tall glass, a real treat, pineapple slowly melting till you can chew the fresh pineapple chunks.#GlobalApron

In Mexico, they serve a Bloody Mary Cocktail drink made with beer instead of vodka. It is called a Michelada and it is very refreshing. We have been copying it at home since we discovered it, and this is how we remember the recipe. We use non alcoholic beer as well as regular home made beer.#CA2025

You can make delicious white sparkling cooking wine from store bought fresh grape juice. This recipe makes champagne bottle size cooking wine for $1.30 per bottle. The wine stays fresh and delicious for five years.Note: Do not reuse wine bottles with screwtops. My October 2023 wine spoiled in them after five months. Corked bottles, or bottles with reuseable champagne tops stay fresh for five years.

Easy, quick recipe to make fresh rhubarb juice with rhubarb, sugar, and black tea. This recipe is from our Amish farmers in Iowa. Rhubarb juice also makes an excellent sweet, medium, or dry wine, see my recipe.We grown wild rhubarb here in the hot valley, and green and red rhubarb in the cooler hills nearby, sold at the farmers market.#GlobalApron

If you see beautiful fresh young ginger root at your farmers market or produce section, here in California around September, one with pink tips, buy it to make the delicious sweet pickled thin ginger slices that are served with sushi as a side dish. You can also use the knobs of mature ginger root. Do not use the woody ginger parts of mature ginger. This sweet and spicy pickled shaved ginger is called gari.

For people with colds. It will warm you right up!The ratio of ginger to sugar to honey is 2:1:1.If you thinly slice the ginger, it makes it easy to eat.Use a small red chili pepper.Add 2 cloves to taste for aroma.Measuring the honey directly into the pot while weighing it on a scale for less dirty dishes to clean up. Recipe by saezoncafe