Skeachan or Treacle Ale

• molasses
• hops or ginger or extract of gentian, ¹
• yeast
• water

Boil for twenty minutes four pounds of molasses in from six to eight gallons of soft water, with a handful of hops tied in a muslin rag, or a little extract of gentian. When cooled in the tub, add a pint of good beer-yeast, or from four to six quarts of fresh worts from the brewer’s vat. Cover the beer