Boil all these till it be so
strong as will bear an Egg, and not sink; when it is milk warm, work it up
with barm, during twenty four hours, and then barrel it up. And after three
months you may bottle it up at your pleasure.
As you desire a greater quantity of the drink, you must augment the
ingredients, according to the proportions above recited.
TO MAKE METHEGLIN
Take four Gallons of water and one of Honey; boil and skim it: then put
into it, Liverwort, Harts-tongue, Wild-carrot, and Yarrow, a little
Rosemary and Bays, one Parsly-root, and a Fennel-root; let them boil an
hour altogether. You may, if you please, hang a little bag of spice in it.
When it is cold, put a little barm to it, and let it work like Beer. The
roots must be scraped, and the Pith taken out.
MEATH FROM THE MUSCOVIAN AMBASSADOUR'S STEWARD
Take three times as much water as honey; then let the tubs, that the honey
must be wrought in, be cleansed very clean with scalding water, so that it
may not prove sowre; also when you mix them together, take half-warm-water,
and half cold, and squeese them well together; Afterwards when you think
the honey is well melted, then let it run through a sieve; and see your
kettle of Copper or Iron (but Copper is better than Iron) be very clean;
then put in your spice, as, Nutmegs, Ginger, Cloves, Cardamome, Anisseeds,
Orange peel; put these in according to the quantity you make, and let them
all be bruised, except the Orange peel, which leave whole.
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