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sweetwort

[ sweet-wurt, -wawrt ]

noun

British.
  1. an infusion of unfermented malt.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sweetwort1

First recorded in 1560–70; sweet + wort 1
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Why, there's Sweetwort the brewer—don't you know Sweetwort?

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If the yeast be flat, and that which is fresh and lively cannot be procured, put to it a pint of warm sweetwort of the first letting off, when it is about half the degree of milk-warm.

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Or boil a pound of the fine raspings of guaiacum, with six gallons of sweetwort, till reduced to five; and when it is set to work, put in the above ingredients.

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Take of the fairest and lay them in sweetwort two or three days, then lay them in a broad preserving Pan of earth, and bake them, but let the Oven be but gently hot, then lay them upon lattice Sieves and set them into a warm Oven, and turn them twice a day till they are dry.

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