ANOTHER SORT OF METHEGLIN
Take to one part of honey, three parts of water: and put them into clean
vessels, mixing them very well together, and breaking the honey with
stripped arms, till it be well dissolved. Then pour out your Liquor into a
large Kettle, and let it boil for two hours and a half, over a good fire,
skiming it all the while very carefully as long as any scum riseth. When it
is boiled enough, pour out your Liquor into clean vessels, and set it to
cool for 24 hours. Afterwards put it into some Runlets, and cover the bung
with a piece of Lead: have a care to fill it up always with the same boiled
Liquor for three or four months and during the time of working. This Meath
the older it is, the better it is. But if you will have your Meath red,
then take twenty pound of black Currants, and put them into a vessel, and
pour your Liquor on them. Of this honey-Liquor you cannot drink till after
nine months, or a year.
MY LORD HERBERT'S MEATH
Take ten Gallons of water; and to every Gallon of water a quart of honey, a
handful and a half of Rosemary, one Ounce of Mace, one Ounce and a half of
Nutmegs, as much Cinamon, half an Ounce of Cloves, a quarter of a pound of
Ginger scraped and cut in pieces.
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