Write Every Day - Day 27

The guests have gone. It was lovely to host them, but also a relief when they left! I wrote 200 words of longfic and edited the chapter, sending it off to beta. (In non-writing news, I also got the species list for my farm property up from 221 to 235 species! I aim to reach 250 species before New Year, which ought to be possible...)

How did your writing go?

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Day 26: china_shop, sylvanwitch, badly_knitted, sanguinity, shadaras, vendettadays, brithistorian, cornerofmadness, the_siobhan, luzula

What on earth??

From The Compleat Housewife (1773):

How to Make Cock Ale: Take ten gallons of ale and a large cock, the older the better; parboil the cock, flay him and stamp him in a stone mortar till his bones are broken (you must craw and gut him when you flay him), then put the cock into two quarts of sack, and put to it three pounds of raisins of the sun stoned, some blades of mace, and a few cloves; put all these into a canvas bag, and a little before you find that the ale has done working, put the ale and bag together in a vessel; in a week or nine days' time bottle it up; fill the bottle but just above the neck, and give it the same time to ripen as other ale.

(I found this utterly bizarre when first reading it, but the more I think of it, the more it sounds kind of like a liquid meal, since ale has lots of calories in it. Chicken soup crossed with ale, or something.)