Spruce Beer
From The Pocumtuc Housewife, a Guide to Domestic Cookery as it is Practised in ..., 1906
Save some of the emptins in the bottom of the keg to raise the next batch.
Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The Pocumtuc Housewife, a Guide to Domestic Cookery as it is Practised in ... (1906) by [name missing], page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Spruce Beer. For a half barrel keg, take a good sized bunch of spruce and birch twigs, a little princess piney, some checkerberry leaves, a few rings of dried 49 pumpkin, a good handful 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 well out. Strain off the liquor, add a quart or two of molasses and a pint of emptins
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