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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.