The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private FamiliesEaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
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The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families
Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
Cooking, English; Formulas, recipes, etc.; Home economics
the degree of milk-warm. Shake the vessel that contains it, and it will
soon gather strength, and be fit for use.--Tunning is the last and most
simple operation in the business of brewing. The casks being well
prepared, perfectly sweet and dry, and placed on the stand ready to
receive the liquor, first skim off the top yeast, then fill the casks
quite full, bung them down, and leave an aperture for the yeast to work
through. If the casks stand on one end, the better way is to make a hole
with a tap-borer near the summit of the stave, at the same distance from
the top as the lower tap-hole is from the bottom. This prevents the
slovenliness of working the beer over the head of the barrel; and the
opening being much smaller than the bung-hole, the beer by being
confined will sooner set itself into a convulsive motion, and work
itself fine, provided proper attention be paid to filling up the casks
five or six times a day.----Another method of brewing, rather more
simple but not more excellent than the above, may be adopted by those
whose conveniences are more limited. For table beer, allow three bushels
of malt to thirty-nine gallons of water, and a pound and a half of
hops. Pour a third part of the hot water upon the malt, cover it up warm
half an hour, then stir up the mash, and let it stand two hours and a
half more. Set it to drain off gently; when dry, add half the remaining
water, mash, and let it stand half an hour. Run that into another tub,
and pour the rest of the water on the malt; stir it well, cover it up,
and let it infuse a full hour. Run that off and mix all together. Put
the hops into a little hot water to open the pores, then put the hops
and water into the tub, run the wort upon them, and boil them together
for an hour. Strain the liquor through a coarse sieve, and set it to
cool. If the whole be not cool enough that day to add to it the yeast, a
pail or two of wort may be prepared, and a quart of yeast added to it
over night. Before tunning, all the wort should be put together, and
thoroughly mixed. When it has done working, paste a piece of paper on
the bung-hole, and after three days it may be fastened close. In less
than a month the beer will be fit for use. See ALE, MALT, BEER.
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