[Sca-cooks] Birch Tree recipes was Tree Saps: Was New World Food (wines)

[Johnna Holloway]

I am not up to typing out the recipe in full. It's on pages 384-385.
You take gallons of the sap, boyle it well as you doe bear*
but first add one pound of sugar to each gallon. After boiling
add yeast as ye doe to ale. Bottle and age at least 8-9 weeks.

Johnnae


Nick Sasso wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> There is of course a recipe for Birch Wine that starts out by tapping
> birch trees
> in the Tudor Jacobean manuscript A Booke of Sweetmeats as published
> in Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery, edited by Karen Hess.
> See recipe S257 To Make Birch Wine.
>
> Do you have the information handy to describe what other fermentables are
> added?  snipped
>
> niccolo
>