To Make Spruce Beer
From The frugal housewife, or, Housekeeper's and servant's guide, being a carefully selected assortment of useful family receipts, in cookery, confectionery, making wines, preserving, pickles, &c., with every necessary information connected with the above arts
It will be fit for drink in a few days.
Presented as published in 1900. 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 frugal housewife, or, Housekeeper's and servant's guide, being a carefully selected assortment of useful family receipts, in cookery, confectionery, making wines, preserving, pickles, &c., with every necessary information connected with the above arts (1900), page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
To make Spruce Beer. This cheap and wholesome liquor is thus made: — Take of water six¬ teen gallons and boil the half of it; put the water thus boiled to the re¬ served cold part, which should be previously put into a barrel or other vessel ; then add sixteen pounds of treacle or molasses, with a few spoon¬ fuls of the essence of spruce, stirring the whole together; add half a pint of yeast
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