Less then half a
handfull will serve of every sort. Boil your herbs, and strain them out,
and let the Liquor stand till the morrow, and settle; Then take of the
clearest of the Liquor two Gallons and a half to one Gallon of Honey; and
in that proportion take as much of them as you will make, and let it boil
an hour, and in the boiling scum it very clean. Then set it a cooling as
you do Beer; and when it is cold, take some very good Ale-barm, and put it
into the bottom of the Tub you mean the Metheglin shall work in, which pour
into the Tub by little and little, as they do Beer, keeping back the thick
settling, which lieth in the bottome of the vessels, wherein it is cooled.
And when all is put together, cover it with a cloth, and let it work very
near three days. And when you mean to put it up, scum off all the barm
clean, and put it up into your Barrel or Firkin, which you must not stop
very close in four or five days, but let it have a little vent, for it will
work; and when it is close stopped, you must look to it very often, and
have a peg in the top, to give it vent, when you hear it make a noise (as
it will do) or else it will break the barrel.
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