To every Gallon of this water, put a quart of pure clear honey, the Liquor
being first strained from the herbs. Your Liquor if it be strong enough
will bear an Egg, the breadth of a three pence above water. When you have
put the honey into the Liquor, you must work and Labour it together a
whole day, until the honey be consumed. Then let it stand a whole night
again a clearing. Then put it into a kettle, and let it boil a quarter of
an hour, with the whites and shells of six Eggs; Then strain it clean, and
so let it stand a cooling. Then put it into a barrel, and take Cloves,
Mace, Cinamon, Nutmegs, and beat them together: put them into a linnen bag,
hang it with a thread into the barrel. If you would have it work, that you
may drink of it presently, take the whites of two or three Eggs, a spoonful
of barm, a spoonful of wheat-flower; beat all these together: Let it work,
before you stop it up. Then afterwards stop it well with clay and salt
tempered together, to keep it moist.
TO MAKE METHEGLIN
If your honey be tryed, take six Gallons of Milk-warm-water, to one of
honey, and stir it well together ever and anon, and so let it stand for a
day and night, or half a day may serve; then boil it with a gentle fire,
for the space of half an hour or thereabouts, and skim it, still as the
skum ariseth.
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