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Anne Bayne booke [of recipes] circa 1700
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(159) To make Eleker When you brew take some of the strongest of your liquor after you have taken of 2 or 3 skeelfulls for that which comes of first hath not got the strength of the malt. & when you have taken what quantity you please for the Eleker you may make small beere of the remainder. that which is for the Eleker. boile no more. but when it is on a right warmth for seting on. put yest upon it & let it work & ding it in as you doe ale. when your yest is very hard that you think it fit for tuning tun it up into a runlet & the yest together. then let it stand a night & a day in the house before you remove it. & when the yest is hardened carry it into the garden or any other place where the sun gits to it. [illegible] a paper upon it over the bung hole & lay either a stone or a bord upon it to keepe it from the raine. but before you bung it up put in 2 pennyworth of Argill bett small then let it stand till about michaelmas in the garden under the shade. then draw it of from the dregs & wash out the runlitt with a little beere & put it into the same runlitt againe. & keepe it for your use it will sower much after it is cleared of. it is very good to pickle in.
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(159) To make Eleker When you brew take some of the strongest of your liquor after you have taken of 2 or 3 skeelfulls for that which comes of first hath not got the strength of the malt. & when you have taken what quantity you please for the Eleker you may make small beere of the remainder. that which is for the Eleker. boile no more. but when it is on a right warmth for seting on. put yest upon it & let it work & ding it in as you doe ale. when your yest is very hard that you think it fit for tuning tun it up into a runlet & the yest together. then let it stand a night & a day in the house before you remove it. & when the yest is hardened carry it into the garden or any other place where the sun gits to it. [illegible] a paper upon it over the bung hole & lay either a stone or a bord upon it to keepe it from the raine. but before you bung it up put in 2 pennyworth of Argill bett small then let it stand till about michaelmas in the garden under the shade. then draw it of from the dregs & wash out the runlitt with a little beere & put it into the same runlitt againe. & keepe it for your use it will sower much after it is cleared of. it is very good to pickle in.
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