After it is scummed once or twice, you may put in your herbs,
and spice grosly beaten, one half loose; the other in a bag, which
afterwards may be fastned with a string to the tap-hole, as Pepper, Cloves,
Mace, Ginger and the like; when it is thus boiled, let it stand in the
vessel until it be cooled; then Tun it up into your barrel, and let it work
two or three days, or more before you stop the bung-hole; but in putting up
the boiled liquor into the barrel, reserve the thick grounds back, which
will be settled in the pan or kettle.
If you would have it to drink within two or three months, let it be no
stronger then to bear an Egg to the top of the water. If you would have it
keep six months, or longer, before you drink it, let it bear up the Egg the
breadth of two pence above the water. This is the surer way to proportion
your honey then by measure. And the time of the tryal of the strength is,
when you incorporate the honey and water together, before the boiling of
it.
ANOTHER SORT OF MEATH
Take thirty six Gallons of fountain water (first boiled, &c.
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