But at the end of
two years you may draw it out into bottles) just above it, else it will not
keep very long: for the more honey the better. Then set it over the fire
till it boils, and scum it very clean. Then take it from the fire, and let
it stand, till it be cold: then put it into your vessel. Take Mace, Cloves,
Nutmegs, Ginger, of each a quarter of an Ounce: beat them small, and hang
them in your vessel (being stopped close) in a little bag.
Note, when any Meath or Metheglin grows hard or sower with keeping too
long, dissolve in it a good quantity of fresh honey, to make it pleasantly
Sweet; (but boil it no more, after it hath once fermented, as it did at the
first Tunning) and with that it will ferment again, and become very good
and pleasant and quick.
TO MAKE METHEGLIN
Take of Rosemary three handfuls, of Winter-savory a Peck by measure, Organ
and Thyme, as much, White-wort two handfuls, Blood-wort half a peck, Hyssop
two handfuls, Marygolds, Borage, Fennil, of each two handfuls;
Straw-berries and Violet-leaves, of each one handful; Of Harts-tongue,
Liverwort a peck; Ribwort half a peck, of Eglantine with the Roots, a good
quantity; Wormwood as much as you can gripe in two hands; and of Sorrel,
Mead-sutt Bettony with the Roots, Blew-bottles with the Roots, the like
quantity; of Eye-bright two handfuls, Wood-bind one handful.
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