Buttered Beer Recipe (1594), found in "The Good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchin"

To make Buttered Beere. Take three pintes of Beere, put fiue yolkes of Egges to it, straine them together, and set it in a pewter pot to the fyre, and put to it halfe a pound of Sugar, one penniworth of Nutmegs beaten, one penniworth of Cloues beaten, and a halfepenniworth of Ginger beaten, and when it is all in, take another pewter pot and brewe them together, and set it to the fire againe, and when it is readie to boyle, take it from the fire, and put a dish of sweet butter into it, and brewe them together out of one pot into an other.

Or in modern English: "To make Buttered Beer, take three pints of dark beer, beat five egg yolks in, and heat on the fire. Add a half-pound of sugar, a hefty sprinkle of ground nutmeg, a few whole cloves, and a sprinkle of grated ginger. Mix well and whip to a froth. When hot, add three (experiment with this) sticks of melted butter and mix well. Serve hot."

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