Professor Walter's Recipes of Yesteryear

Maple Beer ~1805

To every four gallons of water when boiling, add one quart of maple molasses. When the liquor is cooled to blood heat, put in as much yeast as necessary to ferment it. Malt or bran may be added to this beet, when agreeable. If a table spoonful of the essence of spruce be added to the above quantities of ewater and molasses, it makes a most delicious and wholesome drink.

Coffee (Four Cups) ~ 1917

2 Tablespoons Coffee
3 Tablespoons Cold Water
1/2 Tablespoon Egg White
4 1/2 Cups Boiling Water

Scald the coffee pot, add the coffee, cold water and the egg-white. Mix thoroughly, add the boiling water. Boil two minutes. Allow to stand in the pot one minute. Serve.