Name: Ale and Beer
Ingredients: coarsely ground malt; boiled water

Ale and Beer

Ingredients

coarsely ground malt
boiled water

Directions

In a deep open vessel (mash-tub), combine coarsely ground malt with boiled water that has cooled to the right temperature.
Stir the mixture well for 2 to 3 hours to extract the sugary qualities of the malt.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.