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To Restore Stale Beer

A beverage made by adding wormwood salt to stale beer and stirring.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Restore Stale Beer

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add ½ teaspoon of salt of wormwood to 1 quart of stale beer and stir well to combine.

  2. Pour into a glass to enjoy sparkling beer like bottled porter.

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

Stale beer
Provides the liquid base and the flavour of the finished drink.
Salt of wormwood
Potassium carbonate that reacts with the beer's acidity, producing fizz as it dissolves.

“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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