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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. Nutmeg
  3. White bread
  4. a pint of ale
  5. a pint of milk

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. Warm a pint of milk, with a small piece of white bread in it;
  2. then warm a pint of ale, with a little sugar and nutmeg;
  3. and when the milk boils, pour it upon the ale.
  4. Let it stand a few minutes to clear, and it will be fit for use.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
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Credit

From The housekeeper's receipt book, or, the repository of domestic knowledge (1813), printed page 126, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21531547

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.