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Cheap and Agreeable Beer

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cheap and Agreeable Beer

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil 7.5 gallons of water.

  2. Pour the ocher into a barrel.

  3. Add the boiling water to the cold water in the barrel.

  4. Stir in 1 gallon of molasses and a little yeast.

  5. Keep the bung hole open until fermentation is complete.

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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