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Make Your Own Beer

A simple beer made by mixing herb extract, water, and sugar, then fermenting and serving chilled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Make Your Own Beer

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine 1 tablespoon of extract of herbs with 1 gallon of water, then add sugar to taste.

Ferment and serve

  1. Bottle the mixture and allow it to ferment.

  2. Serve chilled for a refreshing beverage.

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

Extract of herbs
Gives the drink its herbal flavour and aroma.
Sugar
Adds sweetness, adjusted to taste.

“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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