Description:
Recipe By:
James Macfarlane, The Cook Not Mad or Rational Cookery.
Republished in Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst by Dorothy Duncan, 2012
Ingredients:
8 gallons water
1 gallon molasses
1 gill of spruce*
3 pints good yeast
A small quantity of potash when bottled
*gill=quarter of a pint or a half cup
Spruce=spruce boughs boiled in water until it tastes of spruce
Method:
Put in a clean crock. Shake well together. Let it stand a week to work. If the weather is warm it will take less time. When drawn off to bottle, add spoonful of molasses to a bottle.
Recipe from Hannah H. Jarvis Jarvis Cookbook, and Health Remedies, circa 1811.
Republished in Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst by Dorothy Duncan, 2012.
Nice Cookies That Will Keep Good Three Months
Nine cups flour, three and a half of butter, five of sugar, large coffee cup of water, with a heaping teaspoonful of pearl ash dissolved, in it; rub your butter and sugar into the flour, great spoonful of caraway.
