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White Spruce-Beer

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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White Spruce-Beer

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large vessel, combine 5 gallons of water with 7 pounds of loaf sugar.

  2. Boil the mixture and skim off any foam.

  3. Allow it to cool nearly to room temperature, then add ½ pint of fresh yeast.

  4. Let the beer ferment for 3 days.

  5. After fermentation, seal the cask and bottle the beer after 1 week.

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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