Beer
Ingredients
Directions
Make the brew
Fill a boiler with green pea shells.
Pour water until it rises ½ inch above the shells.
Simmer for 3 hours.
Strain off the liquid.
Flavour and ferment
Add a strong decoction of wood-sage or hops to make it pleasantly bitter.
Ferment in the usual manner.
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
- Green pea shells
- Provide the base liquid's sugars and flavour as they simmer in water.
- Wood-sage or hops
- Add bitterness that balances the sweetness of the liquid.
- Yeast
- Ferments the sugars in the liquid, producing alcohol and carbonation.
The step that matters
Simmer for 3 hours. Simmering extracts sugars and flavour from the shells into the water. Too short a simmer leaves the liquid weak, so the later fermentation has little to work with.
“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.
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