Ebulum

Ingredients

• a hogshead of strong ale
• a heap’d bushel of elder-berries
• half a pound of juniper-berries
• half a pound of ginger
• half an ounce of cloves
• as much mace
• an ounce of nutmegs
• as much cinamon grosly beaten
• half a pound of citron
• as much eringo-root
• likewise of candied orange-peel

Method

1. 1

   Add berries to ale with hops and boil until berries break.

2. 2

   After fermentation, add spices and sweetmeats in a bag.

3. 3

   Let it stand until fine, then bottle.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine (1886) by William Carew Hazlitt, page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Ebulum : — To a hogshead of strong ale, take a heap’d bushel of elder- berries, and half a pound of juniper-berries beaten ; put in all the berries when you put in the hops, and let them boil together till the berries brake in pieces, then work it up as you do ale ; when it has done working, add to it half a pound of ginger, half an ounce of cloves, as much mace, an ounce of nutmegs, and as much cinamon grosly beaten, half a pound of citron, as much eringo-root, and likewise of candied orange-peel

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