sweetwort

Any of a variety of sweet-tasting plants.

[…] 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

An fermented beverage made from malt.

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

A sugar-rich liquid, as that used in fermentation.

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.