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Beer

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Beer

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill a pot with green pea shells.

  2. Pour water over the shells until it rises ½ inch above them.

  3. Simmer for 3 hours.

  4. Strain the liquid.

  5. Add a strong decoction of wood-sage or hops to make it pleasantly bitter.

  6. Ferment the mixture with yeast.

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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