Name: Fine Table Beer
Ingredients: 1 bushel of malt; 4 gallons of hot water; 5 gallons of water

Fine Table Beer

Ingredients

1 bushel of malt
4 gallons of hot water
5 gallons of water

Directions

Pour 4 gallons of hot water over the malt and cover it for 30 minutes.
Mash the mixture and let it stand for 3 hours.
Run off the liquid into another container.
Add 5 gallons of water to the dry malt, mash again, and let it stand for 30 minutes.
Run this liquid into another tub and repeat with 5 more gallons of water.

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.