AN EXCELLENT METHEGLIN
Take Spring-water, and boil it with Rose-mary, Sage, Sweet-Marjoram, Balm
and Sassafras, until it hath boiled three or four hours: The quantity of
the Herbs is a handful of them all, of each a like proportion, to a Gallon
of water. And when it is boiled, set it to cool and to settle until the
next day: Then strain your water, and mix it with honey, until it will
bear an Egg the breadth of a Groat. Then set it over the fire to boil. Take
the whites of twenty or thirty Eggs, and beat them mightily, and when it
boileth, pour them in at twice; stir it well together, and then let it
stand, until it boileth a pace before you scum it, and then scum it well.
Then take it off the fire, and pour it in earthen things to cool: and when
it is cold, put to it five or six spoonfuls of the best yest of Ale you can
get: stir it together, and then every day scum it with a bundle of Feathers
till it hath done working: Then Tun it up in a Sack-cask and to every six
gallons of Metheglin put one pint of _Aquavitae_, or a quart of Sack; and a
quarter of a pound of Ginger sliced, with the Pills of two or three Limons
and Orenges in a bag to hang in it.
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