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Ale, Berry or Scotch Brown Caudle

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. three gills of beer
  2. Ginger
  3. Porter
  4. Water
  5. Sugar

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Boil a couple of ounces of groats, or the coarsest oatmeal, with two to three gills of beer or porter, after mixing it to a paste with water or cold beer.
  2. Ginger or other spice and a little sugar should be added.
  3. Time to boil : ten to fifteen minutes.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
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Credit

From Cassell's universal cookery book (1901), printed page 1182, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21528524

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.