If you have great quantity, as six to one, of Liquor,
you will easily draw out the tincture in fourteen or sixteen hours
infusion; otherwise you may quicken your liquor with a parcel of Sack. In
the mean time make the great quantity of Liquor work with yest. When it
hath almost done fermenting, but not quite, put the infusion to it warm,
and let it ferment more if it will. When that is almost done, put to it a
bag with flowers to hang in the bung.
I conceive that Hydromel made with Juniper-berries (first broken and
bruised) boiled in it, is very good. Adde also to it Rosemary and
Bay-leaves.
Upon tryal of several ways, I conclude (as things yet appear to me) that to
keep Meath long, it must not be fermented with yest (unless you put Hops
to it) but put it in the barrel, and let it ferment of it self, keeping a
thick plate of lead upon the bung, to lie close upon it, yet so that the
working of the Liquor may raise it, to purge out the foulness, and have
always some new made plain Liquor, to fill it up as it sinks, warm whiles
it works: but cold during three or four month's after.
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