Name: Porter Sangaree
Ingredients: 1/3 cup ale; 2/3 cup warm or cold water; sweetener to taste; grated nutmeg

Porter Sangaree

Ingredients

1/3 cup ale
2/3 cup warm or cold water
sweetener to taste
grated nutmeg

Directions

Combine ale and water in a glass and sweeten to taste.
Sprinkle grated nutmeg on top.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Ale: Provides the main beer flavour and a light bitterness that the sweetener balances.
Sweetener: Adds sweetness to offset the bitterness of the ale.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.