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in forming spruce beer ; but a decoction may 

 be procured from the young shoots of either 

 of the species of spruce, that answers every 

 purpose for making this antiscorbutic beer, 

 the most simple receipt for brewing of which, 

 is to take sixteen gallons of water, and boil 

 the half of it ; put the water thus boiled, 

 while in full heat, to the reserved part, which 

 should be previously put into a barrel or other 

 vessel ; thereto add sixteen pounds of treacle, 

 with a few table spoonfuls of the essence of 

 spruce, stirring the whole well together ; add 

 half a pint of yeast, and keep it in a tempe- 

 rate situation, with the bung-hole open, for 

 two days, till the fermentation is abated ; 

 then bottle it off, and it will be fit to drink in 

 a few days afterwards. 



