How to brew (1832 version)

[lancsSteve]

Hope this is the best forum - it is a how to but perhaps of greatest interest as a historical oddity or source of information and ideas... Makes for great reading though -especially condemning "tea drinking as a destroyer of health,an enfeebler of the frame, an engenderer of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth, and a maker of misery for old age" (para 29) to be tested against the healthy virtues of beer by feeding a thin hog a diet of bushels of malt or tea and seeing how 'healthy' he becomes on a diet of malt and starving he is on tea... :-D

Cottage Economy: Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread ...
Published 1826 by Published by William Cobbett .
Written in English.

Free ebook from 1832 - readble online or can be sent to kindle...

http://www.archive.org/stream/cottageec ... 0/mode/2up

 

[luckyeddie]

Really interesting.

The author did not like tea, did he?