Name: General Amherst's Spruce Beer
Ingredients: E *****

And as I looked upon that corpse [of Jesus], I heard a footstep, and wondered where it was. I listened, and I clearly perceived that the murderer was close at hand. It was dark, and I groped about to find him. I found that, somehow or other, wherever I put out my hand, I could not meet with him, for he was nearer to me than my hand would go. At last I put my hand upon my breast. “I have thee now,” said I; for lo! he was in my own heart! The murderer was hiding within my own bosom, dwelling in the recesses of my inmost soul. Ah! Then I wept indeed, that I, in the very presence of my murdered Master, should be harbouring the murderer, and I felt myself most guilty while I bowed over His corpse, and sang that plaintive hymn: “Twas you, my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; each of my crimes became a nail, and unbelief the spear.” My sins were the scourges which lacerated those blessed shoulders, and crowned with thorns those bleeding brows. My sins cried, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” and laid the cross upon his gracious shoulders. His being led forth to die is sorrow enough for one eternity; but my having been His murderer is more, infinitely more grief, than one poor fountain of tears can express

C.H. Spurgeon

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	British		54	Servings

INGREDIENTS

E *****

INSTRUCTIONS

Take  7  Pounds of good spruce & boil it well till the bark  peels
off, then take the spruce out & put three Gallons of Molasses to the
Liquor & and boil it again, scum it well as it boils, then take it  out
the kettle & put it into a cooler, boil the remained of the water
sufficient for  a Barrel  of thirty Gallons, if the kettle is not
large enough to boil  it together, when milkwarm in the Cooler put a
pint of Yest into it and mix well.  Then put it into a Barrel and let
it work for two or three  days, keep filling it up as it works out.
When done working, bung it up with a Tent  Peg  in the Barrel to give
it vent every now and then. It  may  be used in up to two or three
days after. If wanted to be bottled it should stand a fortnight in  the
Cask. It will keep a great while. From the journal of General  Jeffrey
Amherst, governor-general of British North America.  Recipe By     :
Thomas Manteufel  From:                                 Date:  File
ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmdja006.zip

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