Spruce Beer
From The Pocumtuc housewife, 1897
Will keep for a week or two. Save some emptins to raise the next batch.
Presented as published in 1897. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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Ingredients
Method
As published
This recipe was extracted from The Pocumtuc housewife (1897), page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Spruce Beer. For a half barrel kag, take a good sized bunch of spruce and birch twigs, a little princess piney, some checkerberry leaves, a few rings of dried pumpkin, a good hand- ful of hops, some malt or bran, or both, and anything else you like. Boil them all together in the big pot until the taste is 47 well out. Strain off the liquor, add a quart or two of molasses and a pint of emptins
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