Regency Dish: Alder Berry Beer

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This recipe appeared in The Ladies Best Companion; Or, a Golden Treasure for the Fair Sex (1800).

To make Beer of Alder Berries Make a hogshead of wort in the same manner as for strong beer and when you boil it up put into the copper a bushel of alder berries full ripe when you draw off the liquor let the berries be strained out chen let it be worked in the same manner as beer When de wn of into the cask let it stand a year and then bottle it off for use It is supposed to have been one of the liquors used by the ancient Britons and is of a refra hing healthy nature

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