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Spruce Beer

Ingredients

• 1 ounce of hops
• 1 spoonful of ginger
• 1 pint of molasses, or 1 pound of brown sugar
• 1/2 ounce or less of the essence of spruce
• 1 teacupful of yeast

Instructions

Allow an ounce of hops and a spoonful of ginger to a gallon of water. When well boiled, strain it and put in molasses, or brown sugar, and essence of spruce; when cool, add yeast, and put into a clean tight cask, and let it ferment for a day or two, then bottle it for use. You can boil the sprigs of spruce fir in place of the essence.

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Source

The White House Cookbook (1887).