2 The Art of Cookery 
your wort Have ready a large tub, put two flicks acrofs, and 
fet your draining bafket over the tub on the flicks, and ftraiti 
your wort thro 5 it Put your other wort on to boil with the reft 
of the hops; let your mafli be ftill covered again with water, and 
jhin your wort that is cooled in as many things as you can ; for 
the thinner it lies, and the quicker it cools, the better. When 
quite cool, put it into the tunning-tub. Mind to throw ahandful 
of fait into every boil. When the mafli has flood an hour draw 
it oft, then fill your mafli with cold water, take off the wort in 
the copper and order it as before. When cool, add to it the 
firft in the tub ; fo foon as you empty one copper, fill the other, 
fo boil your fniajl beer well. Let the laft mafh run off, and 
when both are boiled v/ith frefli hops, order them as the two firft 
boilings; when cool, empty the mafli-tub, and put the finali 
beer to work there. When cool enough, work it, fet a wooden 
bowl full of yeaft in the beer, and it will work over with a little 
of the beer in the boil. Stir your tun up every twelve hours, let 
it ftand two days, then tun if, taking off’the yeaft. Fill your 
yeffels full, and fave fome to fill your barrels ; let it ftand till if 
has done working, then lay on your bung lightly for a fortnight, 
after that flop it as clofe as you can. Mind you have a vent-peg 
at the top of the veffel; in warm weather, open it; and if your 
drink hiffes, as it often will, loofen it till it has done, then flop it 
.clofe again. If you can boil your ale in one boiling it is beft, if 
yqur copper will allow of it; if not, boil it as cooveniency ferves. 
The ftrength of your beer muft be according to the malt you 
allow, more or lefs ; there is no certain rule. 
When you come to draw your beer, and find it is not fine, 
draw off a gallon, and fet it on the fire, with two ounces of 
ifmglafs cut fmall and beat. Diflblve it in the beer over the fire 5 
When it is all melted, let it ftand till it is cold, and pour it in at 
the bung, which muft lay loofe on till it has done fomenting, 
then flop it clofe for a month. 
Take great care your cafks are not rrtufty, or have any ill 
tafte ; if they have, if is the hardeft thing in the world to 
fweeten them. 
You are to Wafh your cafks with cold water before you fcald 
them, and they fliould lie a day or two foaking, and clean them 
well, then fcald them. 
The heft thing for rope . 
MIX two handfuls of bean flower, and one handful of fait, 
throw this into a kilderkin of beer, don’t flop it clofe till it 
has done fermenting, then let it ftand a month, and draw it off; 
but fomettmes nothing will do with it. 
When 
