For brewing Spruce Beer. 

Take four ounces of  hops,  let them boil half an hour in one gallon of  water,  strain the  hop water  then add sixteen gallons of  warm water,  two gallons of  molasses,  eight ounces of  essence of spruce,  dissolved in one quart of  water,  put it in a clean  cask,  then shake it well together, add half a pint of  emptins,  then let it stand and work one week, if very warm weather less time will do, when it is drawn off to bottle, add one spoonful of  molasses  to every bottle. 






American Cookery
Amelia Simmons
1796


Northampton 


Massachusetts










































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