ALE CUP a nourishing drink for anyone suffering with a bad cold..120yr old British recipe

Here's a wonderful drink for  helping to relieve the symptoms of a bad cold......and over 100yrs of dependability!
This is also perfect for lack of appetite due to bad cold or 'flu

2 cups mild beer/ale
grated nutmeg or mace to taste
2 whole cloves (the spice NOT garlic)
1 level tsp ground ginger ( or 1 x 1 inch piece peeled ginger root)
1 whole egg (room Temp.)
1 tsp sugar or honey 

Heat the beer but do not boil.
Add the spices and then all it to simmer for 4 mins.
In a large cup/jug, beat the egg with the sugar and 1 tbsp cold water.
Pour over the  hot beer,(strain out the ginger root and cloves), whisking all the time.
Drink while the beer is frothing.

Variations Add 1 tbsp any hard liquor (rum, whisky, bourbon, brandy), in place of sugar add molasses or black treacle.

This is also a great cold weather warmer

A Boer War Sandwich & Jolly Boys...MONEY SAVING recipes from over 100 years ago

Here's a recipe from a soldier from that war (1899-1902) and I expect it is one of the first "toasted" Sandwich recipes ever.

Makes 1 sandwich

2 slices of good bread

1 tbsp butter
1/2 tsp prepared mustard or horseradish
1/2 cup grated cheese
salt & pepper to taste
1 large egg at room temp.

Method:
Beat the butter, mustard and egg until smooth.
Then fold in the grated cheese and season.
Spread over one slice of bread and top with the other and press down.
In  a lightly oiled skillet fry until both sides are golden brown turning once.

"Jolly Boys" This is from 1900's North of England
For when fresh eggs are scarce/expensive

Serves 2
2 tbsp flour
pinch of salt
1 large egg

Method:
Whisk together and add enough milk to make a thick batter( runs thickly from back of a wooden spoon)
Heat oil or fat in a skillet and put tablespoon fulls of batter into the hot oil.
It will form ovals and rise up as it cooks, baste with hot oil as one does with fried eggs.
Serve hot with home fries, tomatoes, baked beans.

The Christmas Breads ( rich with eggs, butter, sugar dried fruit, spices, walnuts and dark rum), Caraway whole wheat sourdough, (fat, egg and sugar free)

Rich  whole wheat bread dough made with sourdough starter, whole eggs, dried yeast, sugar spices, and butter, slathered with almond milk, walnuts, dried cranberries, own made orange peel soaked in dark rum, semi sweet chocolate chips and cinnamon.

Whole wheat sourdough with caraway seeds, no fat eggs nor sugar. Great old fashioned goodness ( photos above and below)

This sourdough starter is over 8years old made from the skin of an organic own grown apple ( apple tree is long gone now).

Sourdough bread has to be treated different from reg. loaves:

The bread takes longer to prove and has to be a rather wetter mix.

Also bake in a steam filled oven and unlike most breads..it is better dried out overnight.
Sourdough is NOT a bread to eat warm just out of the oven..it has to mature overnight. 


Happy Baking and if you are looking for some great bread recipes or recipes using bread, you cannot go wrong with my eBook

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Most of the recipes are very old and proven more than their worth over time, Happy Baking, John Nigel