Aleberry is a beverage made by boiling ale with spice (such as nutmeg), sugar and bread-sops, the last commonly toasted. It is sweetened, strained, and drunk hot. The word is "a corruption of ale-bree ... bree (Anglo-Saxon brin, broth)."[1]
Aleberry was often used as a domestic remedy for a cold.
William Salmon gives a recipe for aleberry in his The family dictionary, or, Houshold companion, published 1695:[2]
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