Meaning of sweetwort | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of a variety of sweet-tasting plants.
2. An fermented beverage made from malt.
3. A sugar-rich liquid, as that used in fermentation.

Examples

“[…] then boil the buds or bark of elder, sweetwort and green brier leaves”

“As spring opened, they began to find a plant just showing above the ground; it resembled asparagus, and for some reason they called it " Mashka's sweetwort," though it was very bitter”

“Sweetwort, Acorus calamus”

“the hay from upland meadows, with its larger variety of plants, predominantly origanum, a modest plant with pink and white flowers. It is this sweetwort that makes the aroma of hay mown and dried in fine weather exceptionally spicy and exhilarating.”

“It is you who hold with both hands the great sweetwort, brewing it with honey and wine.”

“In Alcoholic fermentation yeast is added to some saccharine fluid—such as the "sweetwort" or infusion of malt used in the preparation of beer.”

“Barley-sugar. A preparation of sugar made in long yellow sticks, which were flavoured originally with sweetwort, or extract of malt, but now flavoured with lemon.”

“Neither the juice of the beetroot nor the sap of the sugar-cane consists entirely of pure sugar dissolved in pure water. They both contain other constituents common to vegetable juices, and some peculiar to themselves. These mucilaginous matters, when roughly separated, carry down with them some sugar, and form a sort of sweetwort, capable by skilful treatment of producing a rich caramel well suited for mixing with coffee.”

“Cagniard-Latour had indeed shown several years before that yeast consists essentially of the cells of a microscopic fungus which grows as the sweetwort ferments, and he had attributed the breaking up of the sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid to the growth of the micro-organism.”

“If allowed to ferment, you have brewed beer. As it is, Sweetwort is sweet (what's in a name) and non-alcoholic.”

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