Happy October! My favourite month (next to December) is here, and to celebrate, we're whipping up some butterbeer. In the Harry Potter books, butterbeer is described as being able to make houselves intoxicated, and having only a slight effect on wizards.
So we thought we'd start by making an original recipe from the 1588's, slightly altering a recipe provided by Recipewise.
You need:
1 bottle of British Ale (we used Old Peculiar)
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/3 cup of brown sugar
2 egg yolks
2.5 tbsp of unsalted butter
Start by pouring the ale into a saucepan. To keep it from 'exciting' (foaming up), angle the saucepan and gently pour the ale down the side into the pan. Stir in the 1tsp of spices. Gently heat until it comes to a boil, before lowering the heat and simmering for a few minutes.
In these few minutes, whisk together the yolks and sugar.
Lower the heat even more and add in the yolks and sugar to the ale. Let simmer for 3-5 minutes and remove from heat. Stir in the butter until fully mixed in.
With a hand blender, froth the ale until foam forms. Let sit to cool.
Using a spoon, hold back the froth as you pour the butterbeer into the beer stein. Leave about an inch of room on the top, spoon on the froth and serve.
Thanks to
for supplying the beer steins. Giveaway coming soon!
