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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Beer
  2. Yeast
  3. an ounce of ginger
  4. Water
  5. one pound of treacle
Contains Gluten Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

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.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. To eight quarts of boiling water put one pound of treacle, a quarter of an ounce of ginger, and two bay leaves.
  2. Boil the whole for a quarter of an hour, then cool, and work it with yeast in the same way as other beer.
  3. A little yeast spread on a piece of toast, and put into the liquid before it is cold, will excite a fermentation ;
  4. and when it has done working, it may be bottled or barrelled, according to the quantity required for immediate use.
  5. If wanted to keep, a small bit of gentian root, with or without a little lemon or orange-peel, may be boiled in the liquor, which will give it an agreeable taste.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Vegetable peeler