much Wild-thyme Rosemary and Flowers is best It is of three sorts Virgin-honey Life-honey and Stock-honey The first is the best The Life-honey next The Virginâ—honey is of Bees that swarmed the Spring before and are taken up in Autumn and is made best by chusing the Whiâ—est combs of the Hive and then letting the Honey run out of them lying upon a Sieve without pressing it or breaking of the Combs The Life-honey is of the same Combs broken after the Virgin-honey is run from it The Merchants of Honey do use to mingle all the â—orts together The first of a Swarm is called Virgin-honey That of the next year after the Swarm was hatched is Life-honey And ever after it is Honey of Old-stocks Honey that is forced out of the Combs will always taste of Wax Hampshire Honey is most esteemed at London About Bisleter there is excellent good Some account Norfolk honey the best Mr. Corsellises Antwerp Meath To make good Meath good White and thick Marsilian or Provence-honey is best and of that to four Holland Pints the Holland Pint is very little bigger then the English Wine-pint of Water you must put two pound of Honey The Honey must be stirred in Water till it be all melted If it be stirred about in warm water it will melt so much the sooner When all is dissolved it must be so strong that an Egge may swim in it with the end upwards And if it be too sweet or too strong because there is too much Honey then you must put more water to it yet so that as above an Hens Egge may swim with the point upwards And then that newly added water must be likewise well stirred about so that it may be mingled all alike If the Eggs sink which is a token that there is not honey enough then you must put more Honey to it and stir about till it be all dissolved and the Eggs swim as abovesaid This being done it must be hanged over the fire and as it beginneth to seeth the scum that doth arise upon it both before and after must be clean skimed off When it is first set upon the fire you must measure it first with a stick how deep the Kettel is or how much Liquor there be in it and then it must boil so long till one third part of it be boiled away When it is thus boiled it must be poured out into a Cooler or open vessel before it be tunned in the Barrel but the Bung-hole must be left open that it may have vent A vessel which hath served for Sack is best To make excellent Meathe To every quart of Honey take four quarts of water Put your water in a clean Kettle oâ—er the fire and with a stick take the just measure how high the water cometh making a notch where the superficies toucheth the stick As soon as the water is warm put in your Honey and let it boil skiming it always till it be very clean Then put to every Gallon of water one pound of the best Blew-raisins of the Sun first clean picked from the stalks and clean washed Let them remain in the boiling Liquor till they be throughly swollen and soft Then take them out and put them into a Hair-bag and strain all the juice and pulp and substance from them in an Apothecaries Press which put back into your liquor and let it boil till it be consumed just to the notch you took at first for the measure of your water alone Then let your Liquor run through a Hair-strainer into an empty Woodden-fat which must stand endwise with the head of the upper-end out and there let it remain till the next day that the liquor be quite cold Then Tun it up into a good Barrel not filled quite full but within three or four fingers breadth where Sack hath been is the best and let the bung remain open for six weeks with a double bolter-cloth lying upon it to keep out any foulness from falling in Then stop it up close and drink not of it till after nine months This Meathe is singularly good for a Consumption Stone Gravel Weak-sight and many more things A Chief Burgomaster of Antwerpe used for many years to drink no other drink but this at Meals and all times even for pledging of healths And though He were an old man he was of an extraordinary vigor every way and had every year a Child had always a great appetite and good digestion and yet was not faâ— A weaker but very pleasant Meathe To every quart of Honey take six of water boil it till â…“ be consumed skiming it well all the while Then pour it into an open Fat and let it cool When the heat is well slakened break into a Bowl-full of this warm Liquor a New-laid-egge beating the yolk and white well with it then put it into the Fat to all the rest of the Liquor and stir it well together and it will become very clear Then pour it into a fit very clean Barrel and put to it some Mother of Wine that is in it's best fermentation or working and this will make the Liquor work also This will be ready to drink in three or four Months or sooner An Excellent white Meathe Take one Gallon of Honey and four of water Boil and scum them till there rise no more scum then put in your Spice a little bruised which is most of Cinnamon a little Ginger a little Mace and a very little Cloves Boil it with the Spice in it till it bear an Egge Then take it from the fire and let it Cool in a Woodden vessel till it be but lukewarm which this quantity will be in four or five or six hours Then put into it a hot â—ost of Whitebread spread over on both sides pretty thick with fresh barm that will make it presently work Let it work twelve hours close covered with Cloves Then Tun it into a Runlet wherein Sack hath been that is somewhat too big for that quantity of Liquor for example that it fill it not by a Gallon You may then put a little Limon-pill in with it After it hath remained in the vessel a week or ten days draw it into Bottles You may begin to drink it after two or three Months But it will be better after a year It will be very Spritely and quick and pleasant and pure white A Receipt to make a Tun of Metheglin Take two handfuls of Dock alià s wild Carâ—ot a reasonable burthen of Saxifrage Wild-sage Blew-button Scabious Bettony Agrimony Wild-marjoram of each a reasonable burthen Wildâ—thyme a Peck Roots and all All these are to be gathered in the fields between the two Lady days in Harvest The Garden-herbs are these Bay-leaves and Rosemary of each two handfuls A Sieveful of Avens and as much Violet-leaves A handful of Sage three handfuls of Sweet-Marjoram Three Roots of young Borrage leaves and all that hath not born seed Two handfuls of Parsley-roots and all that hath not
born Seed Two Roots of Elecampane that have not seeded Two handfuls of Fennel that hath not seeded A peck of Thyme wash and pick all your herbs from filth and grass Then put your field herbs first into the bottom of a clean Furnace and lay all your Garden-herbs thereon then fill your Furnace with clean water letting your herbs seeth till they be so tender that you may easily slip off the skin of your Field-herbs and that you may break the roots of your Garden-herbs between your Fingers Then lade forth your Liquor and set it a cooling Then fill your Furnace again with clean water to these Herbs and let them boil a quarter of an hour Then put it to your first Liquor filling the Furnace until you have sufficient to fill your Tun. Then as your Liquor begins to cool and is almost cold set your servants to temper Honey and wax in it Combs and all and let them temper it well together breaking the Combes very small let their hands and nails be very clean and when you have tempered it very well together cleanse it through a cleansing sieve into another clean vessel The more Honey you have in your Liquor the stronger it will be Therefore to know when it is strong enough take two New-laid-eggs when you begin to cleanse and put them in whole into the bottome of your cleansed Liquor And if it be strong enough it will cause the Egge to ascend upward and to be on the top as broad as six-pence if they do not swim on the top put more The Countess of Bulling brook's white Metheglin Take eight Gallons of Conduit-water and boil it very well then put as much Honey in it as will bear an Egge and stir it well together Then set it upon the fire and put in the whites of four Eggs to clarifie it And as the scum riseth take it off clean Then put in a pretty quantity of Rosemary and let it boil till it tasteth a little of it Then with a Scummer take out the Rosemary as fast as you can and let it boil half a quarter of an hour put it into earthen pans to cool next morning put it into a barrel and put into it a little barm and an Ounce of Ginger scraped and slâ—ced And let it stand a Month or six Weeks Then bottle it up close you must be sure not to let it stand at all in Brass Mr. Webbes Meath Master Webbe who maketh the Kings Meathe ordereth it thus Take as much of Hyde-park water as will make a Hogshead of Meathe-Boil in it about two Ounces of the best Hopp's for about half an hour By that time the water will have drawn out the Strength of the Hopp's Then skim them clean off and all the froth or whatever riseth of the water Then dissolve in it warm about one part of Honey to six of water Lave and beat it till all the Honey be perfectly dissolved Then boil it beginnâ—ng gently till all the scum be risen and scummed away It must boil in all about two hours Half an hour before you end your boiling put into it some Rosemary-tops Thyme Sweet-mar-jorame one Sprig of Minth in all about half a handful and as much Sweet-bryar-leaves as all these in all about a handful of herbs and two Ounces of sliced Ginger and one Ounce of bruised Cinamon He did use to put in a few Cloves and Mace But the King did not care for them Let all these boil about half an hour then scum them clâ—an away and presently let the Liquor run through a strainer-cloth into a Kiver of wood to cool and settle When you see it is very clear and settled lade out the Liquor into another Kiver carefully not to raise the settlings from the bottom As soon as you see any dregs begin to rise stay your hand and let it remain unstirred till all be settled down Then lade out the Liquor again as before and if need be change it again into another Kiver all whâ—ch is done to the end no dregs may go along with the Liquor in tunning it into the vessel When it is cold and perfect clear tun it into a Cask that hath been used for Sack and stop it up close having an eye to give it a little vent if it should work If it cast out any foul Liquor in working fill it up always presently with some of the same liquor that you have kept in bottles for that end When it hath wrought and is well settled which may be in about two months or ten weeks draw it into Glass-bottles as long as it comes clear and it will be ready to drink in a Month or two but will keep much longer if you have occasion and no dregs will be in the bottom of the bottle He since told me that to this Proportion of Honey and water to make a Hogshead of Meathe you should boil half a pound of Hopps in the water and two good handfuls of Herbs and six Ounces of Spice of all sorts All which will be mellowed and rotted away quite as well as the lushiousness of the Honey in the space of a year or two For this is to be kept so long before it be drunk If you would have it sooner ready to drink you may work it with a little yeast when it is almost cold in the Kiver and Tun it up as soon as it begins to work doing afterwards as is said before but leaving a little vent to purge by till it have done working Or in stead of yeast you may take the yolks of four New-laid-eggs and almost half a pint of fine Wheat-flower and some of the Liquor you have made beat them well together then put them to the Liquor in the Cask and stop it up close till you see it needful to give it a little vent Note that yeast of good Beer is better then that of Ale The first of Septemb. 1663. Mr. Webb came to my House to make some for Me. He took fourty three Gallons of water and fourty two pounds of Norfolk honey As soon as the water boiled He put into it a slight handful of Hops which after it had boiled a little above a quarter of an hour he skimed off then put in the honey to the boyling water and presently a whiâ—e scum rose which he skimed off still as it rose which skiming was ended in little above a quarter of an hour more Then He put in his herbs and spices which were these Rose-mary Thyme Winter-savory Sweet-marjoram Sweet-bryar-leaves seven or eight little Parsleyâ—roots There was most of the Savoury and least of the Eglantine three Ounces of Ginger one Ounce and a half of Cinnamon five Nutmegs half an Ounce of Cloves he would have added but did not And these boiled an hour and a quarter longer in all from the first beginning to boil somewhat less then two hours Then he presently laded it out of the Copper into Coolers letting it run through a Hair-sieve
And set the Coolers shelving tilted up that the Liquor might afterwards run the more quietly out of them After the Liquor had stood so about two hours he poured or laded out of some of the Coolers very gently that the dregs might not rise into other Coolers And about a pint of very thick dregs remained last in the bottom of every Cooler That which ran out was very clear After two hours more settling in a shelving situation He poured it out again into other Coolers and then very little dregs or scarce any in some of the Coolers did remain When the Liquor was even almost cold He took the yolks of three New-laid-eggs a spoonful of fine white flower and about half a pint of new fresh barm of good strong Beer you must have care that your barm be very white and clean not sullied and foul as is usual among slovenly Brewers in London Beat this very well together with a little of the Liquor in a skiming dish till you see it well incorporated and that it beginneth to work Then put it to a pailful of about two Gallons and a half of the Liquor and mingle it well therewith Then leave the skiming dish reversed floating in the middle of the Liquor and so the yest will work up into and under the hollow of the dish and grow out round about the sides without He left this well and thick covered all night from about eleven a clock at night And the next morning finding it had wrought very well He mingled what was in the Pail with the whole proportion of the Liquor and so Tunned it up into a Sack-cask I am not satisfied whether he did not put a spoonful of fine white good Mustard into his Barm before he brought it hither for he took a pretext to look out some pure clean white barm but he protested there was nothing mingled with the barm yet I am in doubt He confessed to me that in making of Sider He put 's in half as much Mustard as Barm but never in Meathe The fourth of September in the morning he Bottled up into Qâ—art-bottles the two lesser Rundlets of this Meathe for he did Tun the whole quantity into one large Rundlet and two little ones whereof the one contained thirty Bottles and the other twenty two There remained but little settling or dregs in the Bottom's of the Barrels but some there was The Bottles were set into a Cool Cellar and He said they would be ready to drink in three weeks The Proportion of Herbs and Spices is this That there be so much as to drown the luscious sweetness of the Honey but not so much as to taste of herbs or spice when you drink the Meathe But that the sweetness of the honey may kill their taste And so the Meathe have a pleasant taste but not of herbs nor spice nor honey And therefore you put more or less according to the time you will drink it in For a great deal will be mellowed away in a year that would be ungratefully strong in three months And the honey that will make it keep a year or two will require triple proportion of spice and herbs He commends Parsley-roots to be in greatest quantity boiled whole if young but quartered and pithed if great and old My own Considerations for making of Meathe Boil what quantity of Spring-water you please three or four walms and then let it settle twenty four hours and pour the clear from the settling Take sixteen Gallons of the clear and boil in it ten handfuls of Eglantine-leaves five of Liverwort five of Scaâ—ioâ—s four of Baulm four of Rosemary two of Bayleaves one of Thyme and one of Sweet-marjoram and five Eringo-roots splirted When the water hath drawn out the vertue of the herbs which it will do in half an hours boiling let it run through a strainer or sieve and let it settle so that you may pour the clear from the Dregs To every three Gallons of the Clear take one of Honey and with clean Arms stripped up lade it for two or three hours to dissolve the honey in the water lade it twice or thrice that day The next day boil it very gently to make the scum rise and scum it all the while and now and then pour to it a ladle full of cold water which will make the scum rise more when it is very clear from scum you may boil it the more strongly till it bear an Egge very high that the breadth of a groat be out of the water and that it boil high with great walms in the middle of the Kettle which boiling with great Bubbles in the middle is a sign it is boiled to it's height Then let it cool till it be Lukewarm at which time put some Ale-yest into it to make it work as you would do Ale And then put it up into a fit Barrel first seasoned with some good sweet White-wine as Canary-sack and keep the bung open till it have done working filling it up with some such honey-drink warmed as you find it sink down by working over When it hath almost done working put into it a bag of thin stuff such as Bakers use to bolt in faâ—tned by a Cord at the bung containing two parts of Ginger-sliced and one apiece of Cinamon Cloves and Nutmegs with a Pebble-stone in it to make it sink And stop it up close for six Months or a year and then you may draw it into Bottles If you like Cardamom-seeds you may adde some of them to the spices Some do like Mint exceedingly to be added to the other herbs Where no yeast is to be had The Liquor will work if you set it some days in the hot Sun with a cover like the roof of a house over it to keep wet out if it chance to rain but then you must have great care to fill it up as it consumeth and to stop it close a little before it hath done working and to set it then presently in a Cool Cellar I am told that the Leaven of bread will make it work as well as yest but I have not tryed it If you will not have it so strong it will be much sooner ready to drink As if you take six parts of water to one of Honey Some do like the drink better without either herbs or spices and it will be much the whiter If you will have it stronger put but Gallons and a half of water to one of honey You may use what Herbs or Roots you please either for their tast or vertue after the manner here set down If you make it work with yeast you must have great care to draw it into bottles soon after it hath done working as after a fortâ—ight or three weeks For that will make it soon grow stale and it will thence grow sower and dead before you are aware But if 〈◊〉 work â—ingly of it self and by help of the Sun without admixtion of either Leaven or Yeast
honey boil it c. When it is tunned up hang in it a bag containing five handfuls of Clove-gilly-flowers and sufficient quantity of the spices above In both these Receipts the quantity of the herbs is too great The strong herbs preserve the drink and make it nobler Use Marjoram and Thyme in little quantity in all My Lady Gowers white Meathe used at Salisbury Take to four Gallons of water one Gallon of Virgin-honey let the water be warn before you put in the honey and then put in the whites of 3 or 4 Eggs well beaten to make the scum rise When the honey is throughly melted and ready to boil put in an Egge with the shell softly and when the Egge riseth above the water to the bigness of a groat in sight it is strong enough of the honey The Egge will quickly be hard and so will not rise Therefore you must put in another if the first do not rise to your sight you must put in more water and honey proportionable to the first because of wasting away in the boiling It must boil near an hour You may if you please boil in it a little bundle of Rosemary Sweet-marjoram and Thyme and when it taâ—teth to your liking take it forth again Many do put Sweet-bryar berries in it which is held very good When your Meath is boiled enough take it off the fire and put it into a Kive when it is blood-warm put in some Ale-barm to make it work and cover it close with a blancket in the working The next morning tun it up and if you please put in a bag with a little Ginger and a little Nutmeg bruised and when it hath done working stop it up close for a Moneth and then Bottle it Sir Thomas Gower's Metheglin for health First boil the water and scum it Then to 12 Gallons put 6 handfuls of Sweet-bryar-leaves of Sweet-marjoram Rosemary Thyme of each one a handful Flowers of Marigold Borrage Bugloss Sage each two handfuls Boil all together very gently till a third waste To eight Gallons of this put two Gallons of pure honey and boil them till the Liquor bear an Egge the breadth of threepence or a Groat together with such spices as you like bruised but not beaten an ounce of all is sufficient You must observe carefully 1. Before you set the Liquor to boil to cause a lusty Servant his Arms well washed to mix the honey and water together labouring it with his hands at least an hour without intermission 2. That when it begins to boil fast you take away part of the fire so as it may boil slowly and the scum and dross go all to one side the other remaining clear When you take it off let none of the Liquor go away with the dross 3. When you take it from the fire let it settle well before it be tunned into the vessel wherein you mean to keep it and when it comes near the bottom let it be taken carefully from the sediment with a thin Dish so as nothing be put into the vessel but what is clear 4. Stop it very close when it is set in the place where it must remain cover it with a cloth upon which some handfuls of Bay-salt and Salpeter is laid and over that lay clay and a Turf 5. Put into it when you stop it some New-laid-eggs in number proportionable to the bigness of the vessel Shell's unbroken Six Eggs to about sixteen Gallons The whole Egg-shell and all will be entirely consumed Metheglin for taste and Colour Must be boiled as the other if you intend to keep it above half a year but less according to the time wherein you mean to use it You must put in no Herbs to avoid bitterness and discolouring and the proportion of water and honey more or less as you would drink it sooner or later as a Gallon of honey to 4 5 or 6 of water If to be weak and to be soon drunk you must when it is tunned put in a Tost of bread hard tosted upon which half a score drops of Spâ—rit of yest or barm is dropped for want of it spread it with purest barm beaten with a few drops of Oyl of Cinnamon If you intend to give it the taste of Raspes then adde more barm to make it work well and during that time of working put in your Raspes or their Syrup but the fruit gives a delicate Colour and Syrup a duller Tincture Drink not that made after the first manner till six moneths and it will endure drawing better then wine but Bottleled it is more spirited then any drink The Spirit of Barm is made by putting store of water to the barm then distill the Spirit as you do other Spirits At last an oyl will come which is not for this use Sir Thomas Gower maketh his ordinary drink thus Make â—ery small well Brewed Ale To eight Gallons of this put one Gallon of honey when it is well dissolved and clarified tun up the Liquor making it work in due manner with barm When it hath done working stop it up close and in three months it will be fit to drink He makes Metheglin thus Make a good Decoct of Eglantine-leaves Cowslip flowers a little Sweet-marjoram and some Rosemary and Bayleaves Betony and Scabious and a little Thyme After the sediment hath settled put â…“ or ¼ or 1 5 or 1 6 part of honey according as you would have it strong and soon ready to the clear severed from the settlement and stir it exceeding well with stripped arms 4 or 5 hours till it be perfectly incorporated Then boil and scum it let it then cool and tun it up c. After it hath cooled lade tâ—e clean from the settlement so that it may not trouble it and tun up the clear thus severed from the settlings Much of the perfection consisteth in stirring it long with stripped arms before you boil it Then to boil it very leisurely till all the scum be off And order your fire so that the scum may rise and drive all to one side This will be exceeding pale clear and pleasant Metheglin He useth to every Gâ—llon of water a good handful of Eglantine-leaves and as much Cowslip flowers but onely a Pugil of Thyme or Marjoram An Excellent way of making white Metheglin Take of Sweet-bryar berries of Rosemary broad Thyme of each a handful Boil them in a quantity of fair water for half an hour then cleanse the water from the herbs and let it stand 24 hours until it be thorough cold Then put your hony into it hony which floweth from the Combs of it self in a warm place is best make it so strong of the honey that it bear an egge if you will have it strong the breadth of a groat above the Liquor This being done lave and bounce it very well and often that the honey and water may incorporate and work well together After this boil it softly over a gentle fire and scum it Then beat
the whites of eggs with their shells and put into it to clarifie it After this put some of it into a vessel and take the whites of two eggs and a little barm and a small quantity of fine flower beat them well together and put it into the vessel close covered that it may work Then pour the rest unto it by degrees as you do Beer At last take a quantity of Cinamon 2 or 3 races of Ginger and two Nutmegs for more will alter the colour of it Hang these in a little bag in the vessel Thus made it will be as white as any White-wine Another way of making white Metheglin To three Gallons of Spring-water take three quarts of honey and set it over the fire till the scum rise pretty thick Then take off the scum and put in Thyme Rosemary Hyssop and Maiden-hair of each one handful and two handfuls of Eglantine leaves and half a handfull of Organ The spices Ginger Nutmegs Cinamon and a little mace and boil all these together near half an hour Then take it from the fire and let it stand till it be cold and then strain it and so Tun it up and stop it close The longer you keep it the better it will be Another way Take two Gallons of water one Gallon of Honey Parietary one handful Sage Thyme one Pugil Of Hyssop half a Pugil Six Parsley-roots one Fennel-root the pith taken out Red-nettles one Pugil Six leaves of Hearts-tongue Boil this together one â—our Then put in the Honey and Nâ—tmegs Cloves Mace Cinamon of each one ounce of Ginger three ounces Boil all these together till the scum be boiâ—ed in not scumming it Then take it off and set it to cool When it is cold put in it six spoonfuls of barm and when it is ripe it will hiss in the pail You must take out the herbs when you put in the honey If you put in these herbs following it will be far better Sanicle Bugloss Avens and Ladies-mantle of each one handful To make white Metheglin Take of Sweet-bryar a great handful of Violet-flowers Sweet-marjoram Strawberry-leaves Violet-leaves Ana one handful Agrimony Bugloss Borrage Ana half a handful Rosemary four branches Gillyâ—flowers N â— 4. the Yellow-wall-flowers with great tops Anniseeds Fennel and Caraway of each a spoonful Two large Mace Boil all these in twelve Gallons of water for the Space of an hour then strain it and let it stand until it be Milkwarm Then put in as much honey as will carry an Egge to the breadth of six pence at least Then boil it again and scum it clean then let it stand until it be cold then put a pint of Ale-barm into it and ripen it as you do Beer and tun it Then hang in the mâ—dst of the vessel a little bag with a Nutmeg quartered a Race of Ginger sliced a little Cinamon and mace whole and three grains of Musk in a cloth put into the bag amongst the rest of the Spices Put a stone in the bag to keep it in the midst of the Liquor This quantity took up three Gallons of honey therefore be sure to have four in readiness Strong Mead. Take one Measure of honey and dissolve it in four of water beating it long up and down with clean Woodden ladels The next day boil it gently scumming it all the while till no more scum riseth and if you will clarifie the Liquor with a few beaten whites of Eggs it will be the clearer The rule of it's being boiled enough is when it yieldeth no more scum and beareth an Egge so that the bâ—eadth of a groat is out of the water Then pour it out of the Kettle into woodden vessels and let it remain there till it be almost cold Then Tun it into a vessel where Sack hath been A Receipt for making of Meath Take a quart of honey and mix it with a Gallon of Fountain-water and work it well four days together four times a day The fifth day put it over the fire and let it boil an hour and scum it well Then take the whites of two Eggs and beat them to a froth and put it into the Liquor stirring it well till the whites of Eggs have raised a froth or Scum then take it ofâ— scumming the liquor clean Then take a handful of Strawberry-leaves and Violet-leaves together with a little Sprig of Rosemary and two or three little Sprigs of Spike and so boil it again with these herbs in it a quarter of an hour Then take it ofâ— the fire and when it is cold put it into a little barrel and put into it half a spoonful of Ale-yest and let it work which done take one Nutmeg sliced and twice as much Ginger sliced six Cloves bruised and a little stick of Cinamon and sow these Spices in a little bag and stop it well and it will be fit for use within a fortnight and will last half a year If you will have your Metheglin stronger put into it a greater quantity of honey My Lord Hollis Hydromel In four parts of Springwater dissolve one part of honey or so much as the Liquor will bear an Egge to the breadth of a Groat Then boil it very well and that all the scum be taken away He addeth nothing to it but a small proportion of Ginger sliced of which He putteth half to boil in the Liquor after all the scum is gone and the other half He putteth into a bag and hangeth in the bung when it is tunned The Ginger must be very little not so much as to make the Liquor taste strongly of it but to quicken it I should like to adde a little proportion of Rosemary and a greater of Sweet-bryar leaves in the boiling As also to put into the barrel a tost of white bread with mustard to make it work He puts nothing to it but his own strength in time makes it work of it self It is good to drink after a year A Receipt for white Metheglin Take to every quart of honey 4 5 or 6 quarts of water boil it on a good quick fire as long as any scum riseth as it boils put about half a pint of water at a time very often and scum it very well as it riseth and be sure to keep it up to the same height and quantity as at the first Put into it a little Rosemary according to the quantity that you make and boil it half a quarter of an hour scum it very well You may put a little Ginger into it onely to give it a taste thereof and let it have a little walm of heat after it Then take and put it into a Woodden vessel which must be well scalded least it taste of any thing let it stand all night and the next morning strain it through a sieve of hair Then if you please you may boil up your grounds that are in the bottome of the vessel with three or four quarts of water and when it is cold strain it
to the rest and put to it a little good light barm That which you make in the winter you must let it stand three days and three nights covered up before you bottle it up and two nights in summer and then bottle it up But be sure you scum off the barm before the bottling up Your vessel which you intend to boil your Meath in must stand in scalding water whilst you boil your Meath it will drink up the less of your Meath Four spoonfuls of good new Ale-barm will serve for five quarts of honey As you desire your Metheglin in strength so take at the first either of the quantities of water Five quarts is reasonable Hydromel as I made it weak for the Queen Mother Take 18 quarts of spring-spring-water and one quart of honey when the water is warm put the honey into it When it boileth up skim it very well and continue skimming it as long as any scum will rise Then put in one Race of Ginger sliced in thin slices four Cloves and a little sprig of green Rosemary Let these boil in the Liquor so long till in all it have boiled one hour Then set it to cool till it be blood-warm and then put to it a spoonful of Ale-yest When it is worked up put it into 〈◊〉 vessel of a fit size and after two or three days bottle it up You may drink it after six weeks or two moneths Thus was the Hydromel made that I gave the Queen which was exceedingly liked by every body Several ways of making Metheglin Take such quantity as you judge convenient of Spring or pure rain water and make it boil well half an hour Then pour it out into a Woodden fat and let it settle 24 hours Then power off the clear leaving the sediment in the bottome Let such water be the Liquor for all the several Honey-drinks you will make 1. Warm sixteen Gallons of this water luke-warm and put two Gallons of Honey to it in a half tub or other fit Woodden vessel Lave it very well with a clean arm or woodden battledoor for two or three hours dissolving the honey very well in the water Let it stand thus two or three days in wood laving it thrice a day a pretty while each time Then put it back into your Copper and boil it gently till you have scummed away all the foulness that will rise and clarifie it with whites of Eggs Then put into it a little handful of cleansed and sliced white Ginger and a little mace when they have boiled enough put in a few Cloves bruised and a stick of Cinamon and a little Limmon-peel and aâ—ter a walm or two pour the Liquor into a woodden half tub with the spices in it Cover it close with a Cloth and blanquet and let it stand so two days Then let the liquor run through a bolter to sever the spice stopping before any settlings come Then pour this clear liquor into pottle-bottles of glass not filling them by a fingers breadth or more Stop them close with Cork tied in and set them in a cool place for 6 7 or 8 weeks 2. In fourty Gallons of the first boiled and settled water boil five handfuls of sweet-bryar tops as much of Cowslip-flowers as much of Primâ—ose-flowers as much of Rosemary flowers as much of Sage-flowers as many of Borage-â—lowers as many of Bugloss â— floâ—ers two handfuls of the tops of Betony four handfuls of Agrimony and as many of Scabious one handful of Thyme as much of Sweet-marjoram and two ounces of Mustard-seed bruised When this hath boiled so long that you judge the water hath drawn out all the vertue of the Herbs which may be in half an hour pour out all into a varte to cool and settle Scum away the herbs and pour the clear from the sediment and to every four gallons of liquor luke-warm put one gallon of honey and lave it to dissolve the honey letting it stand two or three days laving it well thrice every day Then boil it till it will bear an Egge high then clarifie it with whites and shells of Eggs and pour it into a vatte to cool which it will do in a days space or better Whilst it is yet luke-warm put Ale-yest to it no more then is necessary to make it work and then run it into a Rundlet of a fit Size that hath been seasoned with Sack and hang in it a boulter bag containing half a pound of white Ginger cleansed and sliced three ounces of Cloves and as much of Cinamon bruised as much Coriander seed prepared and as much Elder-flowers As it purgeth and consumeth by running over the bung put in fresh honey-liquor warmed that you keep or make on purpose for that end When the working is even almost at an end stop it up close with clay and sand and have great care to keep it always close stopped After a year draw it into pottle Glass-bottles stopped with ground stoppels of glass and keep them in a cool place till they are ready to drink if they as yet be not so Have a care that never any Liquor stay in Copper longer then whilst it is to boil 3. In 20 Gallons of the first boiled and settled water boil six handfuls of Sweet-bryar â— leaves as many of Cowslip flowers as many of Primrose-flowers and as many of Rosemary-flowers and half a handful of Wild thyme during the space of a quarter or half an hour Then take the clear and dissolve in it a sixth part of honey doing as above for the boiling and clarifying it But boil it not to bear an Egge but onely till it be well scummed and clarified Then pour it into a woodden Tub and Tun it with Ale-yest when it is in due temper of coolness as you would do Ale-wort and let it work close covered sufficiently Then Tun it up into a seasoned firkin and put into it a tost of white-bread spread with quick Mustard and hang it in a boulter bag containing loosly some Ginger Cloves and Cinamon bruised and a little Limon-peel and Elder-flowers with a Pebble-stone at the bottome to make it â—ink towards the bottom and fastned by a string coming out of the bung to hinder it from falling quite to the bottome Stop the bung very close and after six weeks or two moneths draw it into bottles 4. In 20 Gallons of boiled and settled water boil a quarter of an hour ten handfuls of sweet bryar-leaves and as many of Cowâ—lips Then let it cool and settle in wood and take the clear and to every four Gallons of liquor put one of honey dissolving it as the others formerly set down Boil it till no more scum rise and that a fourth part be consumed Then clarifie it with whites of Eggs and their shells and make it work with yest After sufficient working Tun it up hanging in it a bag with Ginger Cloves Cinamon and Limon peel Stop it very close and after two or three moneths draw it
into bottles My Lady Morices Meath Boil first your water with your herbs Those she likes best are Angelica Balm Borage and a little Rosemary not half so much as of any of the rest a handful of all together to two or 3 Gallons of water After about half an hours boiling let the water run through a strainer to sever the herbs from it into Woodden or earthen vessels and let it cool and settle To three parts of the clear put one or more of honey and boil it till it bear an Egge leaving as broad as a shilling out of the water skiming it very well Then power it out into vessels as before and next day when it is almost quite cold power it into a Sack-cask wherein you have first put a little fresh Ale-yest about two spoonfuls to ten Gallons Hang in it a bag with a little sliced Ginger but almost a Porenger full of Cloves Cover the bung lightly till it have done working then stop it up close You may tap and draw it a year or two after It is excellent good My Lady Morice her Sister makes her's thus Dissolve your honey in the water till it bear an Egge higher or lower according to the strength you will have it of Then put into it some Sea-warm wood and a little Rosemary and a little Sage about two good handfuls of all together to ten Gallons When it hath boiâ—ed enough to take the vertue of the herbs skâ—m them out and strew a handâ—ul or two of fine Wheat-flower upon the boylâ—ng Liquor This will draw all the dregs to it and swim at the top so that you may skim all off together And this she holdeth the best way of clariâ—ying the Liquor and making it look pale Then pour it into vessels as above to cool Let it stand three days then Tun it up into a Sack caâ—k without yest or Spice and keep it stopped till it work Then let it be open till it have done working filling it up still with other honey-drink Then stop it up close for a year or two You may at first stop it so that the strong working may throw out the stopple and yet keep it close till it work strongly She saith that such a small proportion of wormwood giveth it a fine quick tast and a pale colour with an eye of green The wormwood must not be so much as to discern any the least bitterness in the taste but that the composition of it with the honey may give a quickness The Rosemary and Sage must be a great deal less then the Wormwood Sometimes she stoppeth it up close as soon as she hath Tunned it and lets it remain so for three moneths Then pierce it and draw it into bottles which stop well and tie down the stoppels This will keep so a long time She useth this way most It makes the Mead drink exceeding quick and pleasant When you pierce the Cask it will flie out with exceeding force and be ready to throw out the stopper and spigot To make white Meath Take Rosemary Thyme Sweet-bryar Penyroyal Bayes of each one handful steep them 24 hours in a bowl of fair cold water covered close next day boil them very well in another water till the colour be very high then take another water and boil the same herbs in it till it look green and so boil them in several waters till they do but just change the colour of the water The first waters are thrown away The last water must stand 24 hours with the herbs in it The Liquor being strained from them you must put in as much fine honey till it will bear an Egge you must work and labour the honey with the Liquor a whole day till the honey be consumed then let it stand a night a clearâ—ng In the morning put your Lâ—quor a boiling for a quarter of an hour with the whites and shells of six Eggs. So strain it through a bag and let it stand a day a cooling so Tun it up and put into the vessel in a Linnen bag Cloves Mace Cinamon and Nutmegs bruised altogether If you will have it to drink presently take the whites of two or three Eggs of barm a spoonful and as much of Wheaten-flower Then let it work before you stop it afterwards stop it well with Clay and salt A quart of Honey to a Gallon of liquor and so proportionably for these Herbs Sir William Paston's Meathe Take ten Gallons of spring-Spring-water and put therein ten Pints of the best honey Let this boil half an hour and scum it very well then put in one handful of Rosemary and as much of Bayleaves with a little Lâ—mon-peel Boil this half an hour longer then take it off the fire and put it into a clean Tub and when it is cool work it up with yest as you do Beer When it is wrought put it into your vessel and stop it very close Within three days you may Bottle it and in ten days after it will be fit to drink Another pleasant Meathe of Sir William Paston's To a Gallon of water put a quart of honey about ten sprigs of Sweet-Marjoram half so many tops of Bays Boil these very well together and when it is cold bottle it up It will be ten days before it be ready to drink Another way of making Meath Boil Sweet Bryar Sweet Marjoram Cloves and Mace in spring-Spring-water till the water taste of them To four Gallons of water put one Gallon of honey and boil it a little to skim and clarifie it When you are ready to take it from the fire put in a little Limon-peel and pour it into a Woodden vessel and let it stand till it is almost cold Then put in some Ale-yest and stir it altogether So let it stand till next day Then put a few â—toned Raisins of the Sun into every bottle and pour the Meath upon them Stop the bottles close and in a week the Meath will be ready to drink Sir Baynam Throckmorton's Meathe Take four quarts of Honey good measure put to it four Gallons of water let it stand all night but stir it well when you put it together The next day boil it and put to it Nutmegs Cloves Mace and Ginger of each half an ounce Let these boil with the honey and water till it will bear an Egge at the top without sinking and then it is enough if you see the Egge the breadth of a six pence The next day put it in your vessel and put thereto two or three spoonfuls of barm and when it hath done working you may if you like it put in a little Amber-greece in a clout with a stone to it to make it sink This should be kept a whole year before it be drunk it will drink much the better free from any tast of the honey and then it will look as clear as Sack Make it not till Michaelmas and set it in a cool place You may drink it a quarter old but it
will not taste so pleasant then as when it is old To make white Mâ—theglin Take a Gallon of Honey put to it four Gallons of water stir them well together and boil them in a Kettle till a Gallon be wasted with boiling and scumming Then put it into a vessel to cool When it is almost as cold as Ale-wort then clear it out into another vessel Then put Barm upon it as you do to your Ale and so let it work And then Tun it up into a vessel and put into it a bag with Ginger Cloves and Cinamon bruised a little and to hang the bag in the vessel and stop it up very close and when it hath stood a month or six weeks bottle it up and so drink it You may put in a little Limmon-peel into some of your Metheglin for those that like that taste which most persons do very much A Receipt for making of Meath Mistress Hâ—bden telleth me that the way of making Honey-drink in Russia is thus Take for example 100 Gallons of Spring water boil it a little then let it stand 24 hours to cool and much sediment will fall to the bottom from which pour the clear and warm it and put 20 or 25 Gallons of pure honey to it and lade it a long time with a great woodden battle-dore till it be well dâ—ssolved Tâ—e next day boil it gently till you have skimed off all the scum that will rise and that it beareth an Egge boyant And in this Liquor you must put in the due time a little quantity of Hops about two handfuls which must boil sufficiently in the Lâ—quor Put this into the cooling fat to cool two or three days When it is about milk-warm take white-bread and cut it into tosts upon which when they are hot spread moderately thick some fresh sweet Ale-yest and cover the superficies of the Liquor with such tosts Then cover the Tub or Far with a double course sheet and a blancket or two whâ—ch tye fast about it This will make your Liquor work up highly When you find it is near it's height of working and that the Liquor is risen to the top of the Tub of which it wanted 8 or 10 Inches at first Skim off the tosts and yest and Tun it up in a hogshead which stop close but after 24 hours draw it into another barrel for it will leave a great deal of sediment It will work again in this second barrel After other 24 hours draw it into another barrel and then it will be clear and pale lâ—ke white-wine Stop it up close hanging a bag of bruised spice in the bung and after five or six months it will be fit to drink If you would have your Meath taste of Raspes or Cherries Morello sharp Cherries are the best prepare the water first with them by putting five or six Gallons of either of these fruits or more into this proportion of water in which bruise them to have all their juyce but strain the Liquor from the Grains or Seeds or Stones And then proceed with this tiâ—cted water as is said above Yea may make your Liquor as strong as you like of the fruit Cardamom-seeds mingled with the suspended spices adde much to the pleasantness of the drink Limon-peel as also Elderflowers My Lady Bellassises Meath The way of making is thus She boileth the honey with Spring-water as I do till it be cleer scumed then to every Gallon of Honey put in a pound or two of good Raisins of the Sun boil them well and till the Liquor bear an Egge Then pour it into a Cowl or Tub to cool In about 24 hours it will be cool enough to put the yest to it being onely Luke-warm which do thus spread yest upon a large hot tost and lay it upon the top of the Liquor and cover the Tub well first with a sheet then with coverlets that it may work well When it is wrought up to it's height before it begin to sink put it â—nto your barrel letting it run through a loose open straâ—ner to sever the Raisins and dregs â—rom it Stop it up close and after it bath been â—hus eight or ten days draw it into bottles and â—nto every bottle put a cod of Cardamoms haâ—ing first a little bruised them as they lie in the â—â—od and opening the cod a little that the Liquor may search into it Stop your bottles â—lose and after three or four moneths you may â—â—ink and it will be very pleasant and quick â—nd look like white wine Another Metheglin In every three Gallons of water boil Roseâ—ary Liverwort Balm ana half a handful and Cowslips two handfuls When the water hath â—ufficiently dâ—awn out the vertue of the herbs â—our all into a Tub and let it stand all night Then strain it And to every three Gallons of â—he clear Liquor or 2½ If you will have â— our drink stronger put one Gallon of honey â—nd boil it till it bear an Egge scumâ—ng it till no â—ore scum wâ—ll rise which to make rise the â—etter put in now and then a Porrenger full of â—old water Then pour it into a Tub and let it â—tand to cool till it be bloodâ— warm and then â—ut by degrees a Pint of Ale-yest to it to make â—t work So let it stand three days very close coâ—ered Then skim off the yest and put it into a seasoned barrel but stop it not up close till it have done hisâ—ing Then either stop it very close if you will keep it in the barrel or draw it into bottles Put into this proportion Ginger sliced Nutmegs broken ana one ounce Cinamon bruised half an ounce in a bag which hang in the bung with a stone in it to make it sink You may add if you please to this proportion of water or one Gallon more two handfuls of Sweet-bryar-leaves and one of Betony Mr. Pierce's Excellent white Metheglin In a Copper that holdeth conveniently three hogsheads or near so much boil the best water as full as is fitting As soon as it boileth well and high put to it four handfuls of Sweet-bryar-leaves as much of Eye-bright two handfuls of Rosemary as much of Sweet-Marjoram and one of Broad-thyme Let them boil a quarter of an hour He letteth them boil no longer to preserve the colour of the Metheglin pale then scum away the herbs scuming also the water clear Then lade out the water letting it run through a Ranch-Sieve into a wide open vessel or large Vate to cooâ—â— leaving the settlement and dregs He often leaves out the Eye-bright and Thyme when he provideth chiefly for the pure tast though the Eye-bright hurts it but little When it is blood-warm put the honey to it about one part to four of water but because this doth not determine the proportions exactly for some honey will make it stronger then other you must do that by bearing up an Egge But first lave and scoop your mixture exceedingly at least an hour that the honey
that an Egge is to Emerge out of the Liquor but the breadth of a three pence in This it is to Emerge a lâ—rge Groats-breadth Then in this you take but hâ—lf a pound of Ginger and one ounce of Cloves Whereas the white hath one pound of Ginger and two ounceâ— of Cloves To this you use three quarts or rather more of Ale-yest fresh and new and when all your Liquor is in a high slender tall pipe with the narrowest circumfâ—rence that may be which makes it work better then a broad one where the Spirits loose themselves you have the yest in a large Noggin with a handle or pail and put some of the Liquor to it and make that work then pour it from pretty high unto the whole quantity in the pipe and lade it strongly with that Noggin five or six or eight times pouring it every time from high and working it well togâ—ther that so every Atome of the yest may be mingled with every Atome of the Liquor And this course in this particular you may also use in the white It is best not to broach this till a year be over after the making it To make good Mâ—theglin Take to every Gallon of Honey three Gallons of water and put them both â—ogether and set them over so soft a fire that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands When the honey is all melted put in an Egge and let it fall gently to the bottome and if the Egge rise up to the top again of the Liquor then is it strong enough of the honey but if it lie at the bottome you must put in more honey stirring of it till it do rise If your honey be very good it will bear half a Gallon of water more to a Gallon of Honey Then take Sweet-bryar Rose-mary Bayes Thyme Marjoram Savory of each a good handful which must be tyed up all together in a bundle This Proportion of herbs will be sufficient for 12 Gallons of Metheglin and according to the quantity you make of Metheglâ—n you must add of your herbs or take away When you have put these things together set it upon a quick fire and let it boil as fast as you can for half an hour or better skiming of it very clean which you must Clarifie with two or three whites of Eggs. Then take it off from the fire and put it presently into some clean covers and let it stand till the next morning then pour the clear from the bottom and tun it up putting in a little bag of such spice as you like whereof Ginger must be the most After it hath stood some three or four days you may put in some two or three spoonfuls of good-ale-yest it will make it ready the sooner to drink if you let it work together before you stop it up The older the honey is the whiter coloured the Metheglin will be To make white Metheglin of Sir Iohn Fortescue Take twelve Gallons of water one handful of each of these herbs Eglantine Rosemary Parsley Strawberry-leaves Wild-thyme Balm Liver-wort Betony Scabious when your water begins to boil cast in your herbs and let them boil a quarter of an hour Then strain it from the herbs When it is almost cold then put in as much of the best honey as will make it bear an Egge to the breadth of two pence and stir it till all the honey be melted Then boil it well half an hour at the least and put into it the whites of six Eggs beaten to a froth to clarifie it and when it hath drawn all the scum to the top strain it into woodden vessels When it is almost cold put barm to it and when it worketh well Tun it into a well-seasoned vessel where neither Ale nor Beer hath been for marring the colour and when it hath done working take a good quantity of Nutmegs Mace Cinnamon Cloves and Ginger-bruised and put it into a boulter bag and hang it in the barrel If you will have it taste much of the spice let it boil 3 or 4 walms in it after you have put in the honey But that will make it have a deep colour A Receipt for Meathe To seven quarts of water take two quarts of honey and mix it well together then set it on the fire to boil and take three or four Parsley-roots and as many Fennel-roots and shave them clean and slice them and put them into the Liquor and boil altogether and skim it very well all the while it is a boyling and when there will no more scum rise then is it boiled enough but be careful that none of the scum do boil into it Then take it off and let it cool till the next day Then put it up in a close vessel and put thereto half a pint of new good barm and a very few Cloves pounded and put in a Linnen-cloth and tie it in the vessel and stop it up close and within a fortnight it will be ready to drink but if it stay longer it will be the better My Lord Gorge his Meathe Take a sufficient quantity of rain-Rain-water and boil in it the tops of Rose-mary Eglantine Betony Strawberry-leaves Wall-flowers Borage and Bugloss of each one handful one sprig of Bays and two or three of Sage Then take it off the fire and put a whole raw Egge into it and pour so much honey to it till the Egge rise up to the top then boil it again skiming it very well and so let it cool Then Tun it up and put Barm to it that it may ferment well Then stop it up and hang in it such spices as you like best It will not be right to drink under three or four moneths The Lady Vernon's White Metheglin Take three Gallons of water rain water is best boil in it broad Thyme Rose-mary Peny-royal of each three handfuls Then put it into a stone Pan to cool and strain away the herbs and when it is cold put in one quart of honey and mix it very well then put to it one Nutmeg a little Cinnamon Cloves and Ginger some Orange and Limon-peels Then boil and scum it very well while any scum will rise Then put in your spices and try with a New-laid-egg and the stronger it is the longer you may keep it and if you will drink it presently put it up in bottles and rub the Corks with yest that it may touch it and it will be ready in three or four days to drink And if you make it in the spring put no spices but Cloves and Cinnamon and add Violets Cowslips Marigolds and Gillyflowers and be sure to stop your vessel close with Cork and to this put no yest for the Clove-gillyflowers will set it to work Several sorts of Meath Small and Strong 1. Small Take ten Gallons of water and five quarts of honey with a little Rosemary more Sweet-bryar some Balme Burnet Cloves less Ginger Limon Peel Tun it with a little barm let
there will arise a skum which must be taken off very clean as it riseth Put to every Gallon two Nutmegs sliced and when it hath boiled enough take it off and set it a cooling in clean wort-vessels And when it is as cold as wort put in a little barm and work it like Beer and when it hath done working stop it up and let it stand two months Another to make Meath To every quart of honey allow six Wine-quarts of water half an Ounce of Nutmegs and the Peel of a Limon and the meat of two or three as you make the quantity Boil these together till the scum rise no more It must stand till it be quite cold and when you Tun it you squeese into it the juyce of some Limons and this will make it ripen quickly It will be ready in less then a month Another Receipt Take twelve Gallons of water a handful of Muscovy which is an herb that smelleth like Musk a handful of Sweet-Marjoram and as much of Sweet-bryar Boil all these in the water till all the strengâ—h be out Then take it off and strain it out and being almost cold sweeten it with honey very strong more then to bear an Egg the meaning of this is that when there is honey enough to bear an Egg which will be done by one part of honey to three or four quarts of water then you add to it a pretty deal of honey more at least ¼ or â…“ of what you did put in at first to make it bear an Egg then it is to be boiled and scummed when it is thus strong you may keep it four years before you drink it But at the end of two years you may draw it out into bottles just above it else it will not keep very long for the more honey the better Then set it over the fire till it boâ—ls and scum it very clean Then take it from the fire and let it stand till it be cold then put it into your vessel Take Mace Cloves Nutmegs Ginger of each a quarter of an Ounce beat them small and hang them in your vessel being stopped close in a little bag Note when any Meath or Metheglin grows hard or sower with keeping too long dissolve in it a good quantity of fresh honey to make it pleasantly Sweet but boil it no more after it hath once fermented as it did at the first Tunning and which that it will ferment again and become very good and pleasant and quick To made Metheglin Take of Rosemary three handfuls of Winter-savory a Peck by measure Organ and Thyme as much White-wort two handfuls Blood-wort half a peck Hyssop two handfuls Mary-golds Borage Fennil of each two handfuls Straw-berries and Violet-leaves of each one handful Of Harts-tongue Liverwort a peck Ribwort half a peck of Eglantine with the Roots a good quantity Wormwood as much as you can gripe in two hands and of Sorrel Mead-sutt Bettony with the Roots Blew-bottles with the Roots the like quantity of Eye-bright two handfuls Wood-bind one handful Take all these herbs and order them so as that the hot herbs may be mastered with the cool Then take the small herbs and put them into the Furnace and lay the long herbs upon them Then take a weight or stone of Lead having a Ring whereunto fasten a stick to keep down the Herbs into the furnace then boil your water and herbs three or four hours and as the water doth boil away adde more Then take the water out of the Furnace seething hot and strain it through a Range-sieve then put in the honey and Mash it well together then take your Sweet-wort and strain it through a Range Then try it with a New-laid-egg It must be so strong as to bear an Egg the breadth of a groat above the Liquor and if it doth not then put in more honey till it will bear the Egg. Then take the Liquor and boil it again and assoon as it doth boil skim the froth very clean from it Then set it a cooling and when it is cold then put it into a Kive and pur barm thereto and let it work the Space of a Week Then Tun it up But be careful when it is Tunned that the vessels be not stopp'd up till it hath done hissing Another sort of Metheglin Take to one part of honey three parts of water and put them into clean vessels mixing them very well together and breaking the honey with stripped arms till it be well dissolved Then pour our your Liquor into a large Kettle and let it boil for two hours and a half over a good fire skiming it all the while very carefully as long as any scum riseth When it is boiled enough pour out your Liquor into clean vessels and set it to cool for 24 hours Afterwards put it into some Runleâ—s and cover the bung with a piece of Lead have a care to fill it up always with the same boiled Liquor for three or four months and during the time of working This Meath the older it is the better it is But if your will have your Meath red then take twenty pound of black Currants and put them into a vessel and pour your Liquor on them Of this honey-Liquor you cannot drink till after nine months or a year My Lord Herbert's Meath Take ten Gallons of water and to every Gallon of water a quart of honey a handful and a half of Rose-mary one ounce of Mace one ounce and a half of Nutmegs as much Cinamon half an Ounce of Cloves a Quarter of a pound of Ginger scraped and cut in pieces Put all these into the water and let it boil half an hour then take if off the fire and let it stand till you may see your shadow in it Then put in the honey and set it upon the fire again Then take the shells and whites of a dozen of Eggs and beat them both very well together and when it is ready to boil up put in your Eggs and stir it then skim it clean and take it off the fiâ—e and put it into vessels to cool as you do wort When it is cold set it together with some barm as you do Beer When it is put together leave the settlings behind in the bottom as soon as it is white over tun it up in a vessel and when it hath done working stop it up as you do Beer When it is three weeks old it will be fit to bottle or drink Another white Meath Take three Pound of White-honey or the best Hampshire-honey and dissolve it in a Gallon of water and then boil it and when it beginneth first to boil put into it half a quarter of an Ounce of Ginger a little bruised and a very little Cloves and Mace bruised and a small quantity of Agrimony Let all this boil together a full hour and keep it constantly skimmed as long as any Scum will rise upon it Then Strain it forth into some clean Kiver or
other vessel and let stand a cooling and when it is cold let it stand till it be all creamed over with a blackish cream and that it make a kind of hissing noise then put it up into your vessel and in two or three months time it will be fit to drink Look how much you intend to make the same quantities must be allowed to every Gallon of water To make Metheglin Tike fair water and the best honey beat them well together but not in a woodden vessel for wood drinketh up the honey put it together in a Kettle and try it with a New-laid-egg which will swim at top if it be very strong but if it bob up and sink again it will be too weak Boil it an hour and put into it a bundle of herbs what sort you like best and a little bag of Spice Nutmegs Ginger Cloves Mace and Cinamon and skim it well all the while it boileth when it hath boiled an hour take it off and put it into earthen Pans and so let it stand till next day Then pour off all the clear into a good vessel that hath had Sack in it or White-wine Hang the bag of Spice in it and so let it stand very close stopp'd and well filled for a month or longer Then if you desire to drink it quickly you may bottle it up If it be strong of the honey you may keep it a year or two If weak drink it in two or three months One quart of honey will make one Gallon of water very strong A sprig or two of Rose-mary Thyme and Sweet-marjoram are the Herbs that should go into it To make small Metheglin Take to every quart of white-White-honey six quarts of fair-water Let it boil until a third part be boiled away skiming it as it riseth then put into it a small quantity of Ginger largely sliced then put it out into earthen Pans till it be Luke-warm and so put it up into an earthen stand with a tap in it Then put to it about half a Porenger-ful of the best Ale-yest so beat it well together Then cover it with a cloth and it will be twelve hours before it work and afterwards let it stand two days and then draw it out into stone bottles and it will be ready to drink in five or six days after This proportion of yest which is about six good spoonfuls is enough for three or four Gallons of Liquor The yest must be of good Ale and very now You may mingle the yest first with a little of the Lukeâ—warm-Liquor then beat it till it be well incorporated and begins to work Then adde a little more Liquor to it and beat that Continue so adding the Liquor by little and little till a good deal of it be Incorporated with the yest then put that to all the rest of the quantity and beat it altogether very well then cover it close and keep it warm for two or three days Before you bottle it scum away all the barm and Ginger whereof a spoonful or two is enough for three or four Gallons then bottle up the clear leaving the dregs If you will you may Tun it into a barrel if you make a greater quantity when the barm is well Incorporated with the Liquor in the same manner as you do Beer or Ale and so let it work in the Barrel as long as it will then stop it up close for a few days more that so it may clear it self well and separate and precipitate the dregs Then draw the clear into bottles This will make it less windy but also a little less quick though more wholesome You may also boil a little handful of tops of Rosemary in the Liquor which giveth it a fine taste but all otherâ—herbs and particularly Sweet-marjoram and Thyme give it a Physical taste A little Limon-peel giveth it a very fine taste If you Tun it in a barrel to work there you may hang the Ginger and Limonâ—peel in it in a bag till you bottle it or till it have done working Then you may put two or three stoned and sliced Raisins and a lump of fine Sugar into every bottle to make it quick To make Metheglin Take five Gallons of water and one Gallon of good White-honey set it on the fire together and boil it very well and skim it very clean Then take it off the fire and set it by Take six ounces of good Ginger and two ounces of Cinamon one Ounce of Nutmegs bruise all these grosly and put them into your hot Liquor and cover it close and so let it stand till it be cold Then put as much Ale-barm to it as will make it work then keep it in a warm place as you do Ale and when it hath wrought well Tun it up as yoâ— do Ale or Bâ—er and when it is a week old drink of it at your pleasure An Excellent Metheglin Take spring-Spring-water and boil it with Rose-mary Sage Sweet-Marjoram Balm and Saffafras 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 Aqua-vitae 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 The Whites of Eggs above named is a fit proportion for 10 or 12 Gallons of the Liquor To make white Mâ—athe Take six Gallons of water and put in six quarts of Honey stirring it till the honey be throughly melted then set it over the fire and when it is ready to boil skim it clean then put in a quarter of an Ounce of Mace so much Ginger half an Ounce of Nutmegs Sweet-marjoram Broad-thyme and Sweet-Bryar of all together a handful and boil them well therein Then set it by till it be throughly cold and barrel it up and keep it till it be ripe Another to make Meathe To every Gallon of water take a quart of Honey to every five Gallons a handful of of Sweet-marjoram half a handful of Sliced-ginger boil all these moderately three quarters
of an hour then let it stand and cool and being Lukewarm put to every five Gallons about three quarts of Yest and let it work a night and a day Then take off the Yest and strain it into a Runlet and when it hath done working then stop it up and so let it remain a month then drawing out into bottles put into every bottle two or three stoned Raisins and a lump of Loaf-sugar It may be drunk in two months Another very good white Meath Take to every Gallon of water a quart of Honey boil in it a little Rose-mary and Sweet-marjoram but a large quantity of Sweet-bryar-leaves and a reasonable proportion of Ginger boil these in the Liquor when it is skimmed and work it in due time with a little barm Then tun it in a vessel and draw it into bottles after it is sufficiently settled Whites of Eggs with the shells beaten together do clarifie Meath best If you will have your Meath cooling use Violet and Straw-berry-leaves Agrimony Eglantine and the like adding Borage and Bugloss and a little Rose-mary and Sweet-Marjoram to give it Vigor Tartar makes it work well To make white Metheglin Take to three Gallons of Spring-water one of Honey first let it gently melt then boil for an hour continually skiming it then put it into an earthen or woodden vessel and when it is little more then Blood-warm set it with Ale-yest and so let it stand twelve hours then take off the Yest and Botâ—le it Put in it Limon-peel and Cloves or what best pleaseth your taste of Herbs or Spices Eringo-roots put into it when it is a boiling maketh it much better So do Clove-gilly flowers a quantity of which make the Meath look like Claret-wine I observe that Meath requireth some strong Herbs to make it quick and smart upon the Palate as Rose-mary Bay-leaves Sage Thyme Marjoram Winter-savory and such like which would be too strong and bitter in Ale or Beer To make white Meath Take Rose-mary Thyme Sweet-bryar Peny-royal and Bays Water-cresses Agrimony Marsh-mallows leaves and flowers Liver-wort Wood-betony Eye-bright Scabious of each a like quantity of the bark of Ash-tree of Eringo-rootsâ—green of each a proportion to the herbs of wild Angelica Ribwort Sanicle Roman-worm-wood of each a proportion which is to every handful of the Herbs above-named a sixteenth part of a handful of these latter steep them a night and a day in a woodden boul of water covered the next day boil them very well in another water till the colour be very high Then take another quantity of water and boil the herbs in it till it look green and so let it boil three or four times or as long as the liquor looketh any thing green then let it stand with these herbs in it a day and a night 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 hand 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-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 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 a 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. and dissolve twelve Gallons of Honey in it Keep them boiling an hour and a half after they begin to boil skimming well all the while It will be an hour upon the fire before it boil When it is clear and enough boiled pour it out into woodden vessels to cool When you are ready to Tun it have four Gallons of Black-currants bruise them in a stone mortar that they may the more easily part with their juyce to the Liquor Put them and their juyce into the barrel and pour the cool Liquor upon them so as the vessel be quite full Cover the bung with a plate of lead lying loose on that the working of the Liquor may lift it up as it needeth to cast out the filth And still as it worketh over fill it up with fresh Liquor made in the same proportion of honey and water A moneth after it works no longer stop up the bung very close To make very good Metheglin Take of all sorts of herbs that you think are good and wholsome as Balm Minth Fennel Rose-mary Angelica Wild-thyme Hyssop Agrimony Burnet and such other as you may like as also some field herbs But you must not put in too many especially Rose-mary or any strong herb 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 You may also if you please make a bag and put in good store of sliced Ginger and some Cloves and Cinnamon and boil it in or put it into the barrel and never boil it Both ways are good If you will make small Metheglin you may put fivse or six Gallons of water to one of honey Put in a little Cinnamon and Cloves and boil it well And when it is cold put it up in bottles very close stopped and the stopples well tyed on This will not keep above five or six weeks but it is very fine drink Make your Metheglin as soon as ever you take your Bees for if you wash your combs in the water you boil your herbs in when it is cold it will sweeten much But you must afterwards strain it through a cloth or else there will be much wax To make Meath If you will have it to keep a year or two take six parts of water and one of honey But if you will have it to keep longer take but four parts of water to one of honey Dissolve the honey very well in the water then boil it gently skimming it all the while as the scum riseth till no more scum riseth Then pour it out of the Copper into a fit vessel or vessels to cool Then Tun it up in a strong and sweet cask and let it stand in some place where there is some little warmth It will do as well without warmth but be longer growing ripe This will make it work At first a course foul matter will work over to which purpose it must be kept always full with fresh Liquor of the same as it worketh over When it begins to work more gently and that which riseth at the top is no more foul but is a white froth then fill and stop it up close and set it in a cool cellar where it is to stand continually After half a year or a year you may draw it off from the Lees into a clean vessel or let it remain untouched It is not fit to be drunk for it's perfection till the sweetness be quite worn off yet not to be sower but vinous You may drink it at meals instead of wine and is wholsomer and better then wine To small Meath that is to be drunk presently you may put a little Ginger to give it life and work it with a little barm If the Meâ—th work not at all it will nevertheless be good and peradventure better then that which worketh but it will be longer first and the dregs will fall down to the bottom though it work not Small Meath of eighth or nine parts of water to one of hoâ—ey will be very good though it never work but be barrell'd up as soon as it is cold and stopped close and after two or three months drunk from the barrel without botteling This is good for Meals To make white Meath Take to every three Gallons of water one Gallon of honey and set the water over the fire and let the honey melt before the water be too hot then put in a New-laid-eggs and feel with your hand if it comes half way the water it is strong enough Then put into it these Herbs Thyme Sweet-marjoram Winter-favoury Sweet-bryar and Bay-leaves in all a good great handful which a proportion for ten Gallons Then with a quick-fire boil it very fast half an hour and no longer and then take it from the fire and let it cool in two or three woodden vessels and let it stand without stirring twenty four hours Then softly drain it out leaving all the dregs behind Put the clear into your vessel and if you lâ—ke any spice take Ginger Nutmeg Cinnamon Mace and Cloves and bruise them a little and put them in a bag and let them hang in your vessel Before you put your Meath into the vessel try if it will bear an Egg as broad as a peny if it do then it is very well and if it be made with the best White-honey it usually is just so But if it should prove too strong that it bears the Egge broader then boil a little more honey and water very small and put to it when it is cold and then put it into the vessel It is best to be made at Michaelmas and not drunk of till Lent To make small white Meath Take of the best white-white-honey six quarts of spring-Spring-water sixteen Gallons set it on a gentle fire at first tell it is melted and clean skimmed then make it boil a pace until the third part be consumed Then take it from the fire and put it in a cooler and when it is cold Tun it up and let it stand eight months before you drink it When you take it from the fire slice in three Orris-roots and let it remain in the Liquor when you Tun it up A Receipt to make Metheglin Take four Gallons of water two quarts of Honey two ounces of Ginger one ounce of Nutmegs a good handful of Rose-mary tops and as much of Bay-leaves two ounces of dried Orange-peel 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 Liver-wort Harts-tongue Wild-carroâ— and Yarrow a little Rose-mary 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 then Iron be very clean then put in your spice as Nutmegs Ginger Cloves Cardamome Aniseeds Orange peel put these in according to the quantity you make and let them all be bruised except the Orange â—peel which leave whole The Meath must boil an hour by the Clock after put it into Tubs to cool and when it is cold take three or four slices of White-bread tost them very hard and spread very good yest on both sides of the tosts then put them into the Tubs If it be warm weather let the Tubs be uncovered but if it be cold cover them This being done you will find it worked enough by the black that cometh up by the sides of the Tubs then take a sieve and take off the yest and bread Afterwards draw it off at a tap in the Tub into the cask you intend to keep it in then take a quantity of spice as before well-bruised and put it into a bag and make it fast at the bung with a string and if it begins to work after it is in the cask be sure to give it vent or else you wâ—ll loose all To make Meath To every quart of honey put four quarts of Spring-water temper the honey in the water being a little warmed then put it on the fire again with Fennel Rose-mary Thyme Agrimony Parsley or the like Let them boil half an hour and upwards and as it boileth scum the froth Then take it off and strain it and let it cool as you do your wort Then put a little barm into it then take off the froath again and stir it well together Then take two quarts of Ale boiled with Cloves Mace Cinnamon Ginger and Liquorice and put it to the Meath and Tun it up A Receipt to make white Meath Take Rose-mary Thyme Sweet-bryar Peny-royal Bays Water-cresses Agrimony Marsh-mallow-leaves and flowers Liver-wort Maiden-â—air Betony Eyeâ—bright Scabious the bark of an Ash-tree young Eringo-roots Wild-Angelica Ribwort Sinacle Roman-worm-wood Tamarisk Mother-thyme Saxafrage Philipeâ—dula of each of these herbs a like proportion or of as many as you please to put in You must put in all but four handfuls of herbs which you must steep a night and a day in a little bowl of water being close covered The next day take another fresh quantity of water and boil the same herbs in it till the colour be very high then take another quantity of water and boil the same herbs in it until it look green and so let them boil three or four times in several waters as long as the Liquor looketh any thing green Then let it stand with these herbs in it a day and a night Remember the last water you boil it in to this proportion of herbs must be eighteen Gallons And when it hath stood a day and a night with these herbs in it after the last boiling then strain the Liquor from the herbs and put as much of the finest and best honey into the Liquor as will bear an Egg you must work the honey and liquor together a whole day until the honey be consumed then let it stand one whole night then let it be well laboured again and set it a clearing and so boil it again with the whites of six New-laid-eggs with the shells skim it very clean and let it stand a day a cooling then put it into a barrel and take Cloves Mace Cinnamon and Nutmegs as much as will please your taste and beat them all together and put them in a Linnen bag and hang it with a thread into the barrel Then take the whites of two or three New-laid-eggs a spoonful of barm a spoonful of Wheat-flower and beat them all together and put it into your Liquor in the barrel and let it work before you stop it then afterwards stop it well and set it in a cold place and when it hath been settled some six weeks draw it into bottles and stop it very close and drink not of it in a month after To make Metheglin Take eight Gallons of water set it over a clear fire in a Kettle and when it is warm put to it sixteen pounds of very good honey and stir it well together take off the scum and put two large Nuâ—megs cut in quarters and so let it boil at least an hour Then take it off the fire and put to it two good handfulls of grinded Malt and with a white staff keep beaâ—ing it together till it be almost cold then strain it through a hair-sieve into a Tub and put to it a wine-pint of Ale-yest and stir it very well together and when it is cold you may if you please Tun it up presently into a vessel fit for it or else let it stand and work a day and when it hath done working in your vessel stop it up very close It will be three weeks or a month before it be ready to drink To make Honey drink To two quarts of water take one pound of Honey When it boileth skim it clean as long as any scum ariseth boil it a pretty while then take it off the fire and put it in an earthen pot and let it stand till the next day then put it into clean bottles that are thâ—oughly dry rinsing first every bottle with a little of the liquor Fill them not too full and put into every bottle four or five Cloves and four or five slices of Ginger and stop it very close and set it in Sand and within ten or twelve days it will be ready to drink Some when they take their Bees put the honey-combs into fair-fair-water and make it so strong of the honey that it will bear an Egg and then boil it with some Spice and put it into a barrel but I think it not so good as that which is made of pure honey The Earl of Denbigh's Metheglin Take twenty Gallons of spring-Spring-water boil it a quarter of an hour and let it stand until it b◠〈◊〉 most cold then beat in so much honey as will make it so strong as to bear an Egg so thâ—t on the Top you may see the breadth of a hasel-nut swimming above The next day boil it up with six small handfuls of Rosemary a pound and half of Ginger being scraped and bruised then take the whites of twenty Eggs shells and all bear them very well and put them in to clarifie it skim it very clean then take it off the fire and strain it But put the Rose-mary and Ginger in again then let it remain till it be all most cold then Tun it up and take some New-ale-yest the whites of two Eggs a spoonful of flower and beat them well together and
put them into the barrel when it hath wrought very well stop it very close for three weeks or a months then bottle it and a week after you may drink it To make Meath Take to every Gallon of water a quart of honey and set it over a clear fire and when it is ready to boil skim it very clear Then take two handfulls of Sweet-marjoram as much Rose-mary and as much Baulm and two handful of Fennel-roots as much of Parsley-roots and as many Esparages-roots slice them in the middle and take out the pith wash and scrape them very â—lean and put them with your herbs into your Liquor Then take two Ounces of Ginger one Ounce of Nutmegs half an Ounce of Mace bruise them and put them in and let it boil till it be so strong that it will bear an Egg then let it cool and being cold put in 3 or 4 spoon fulls of New-ale-yest and so skim it well and put it into a Runlet and it will work like Ale and having done working stop it up close as you do New-â—eer and lay salt upon it To make Metheglin Take four Gallons of running water and boil it a quarter of an hour and put it in an earthen vessel and let it stand all night The next day take only the water and leave the settling at the bottom so put the honey in a thin bag and work it in the water till all the honey is dissolved Take to four Gallons of water one Gallon of Honey Then put in an Egg if it be strong enough of the honey the Egg will part of it appear on the top of the liquor if it do not put more honey to it till it do Then take out the Egg and let the Liquor stand till next morning Then take two Ounces of Ginger and slice it and pare it Some Rose-mary washed and stripped from the stalk dry it very well The next day put the Rose-mary and Ginger into the drink and so set it on the fire when it is all most ready to boil take the whites of three Eggs well beaten with the shells and put all into the Liquor and stir it about and skim it well till it be clear Be sure you skim not off the Rose-mary and Ginger then take it off the fire and let it run through a hair sieve and when you have strained it pick out the Rose-mary and Ginger out of the strainer and put it into the drink and throw away the Eggshells and so let it stand all night The next day Tun it up in a barrel Be sure the barrel be not too big then take a little flower and a little bran and the white of an Egg and bear them well together and put them into the barrel on the top of the Metheglin after it is runned up and so let it stand till it hath done working then stop it up as close as is possible and so let it stand six or seven weeks then draw it out and bottle it You must tye down the Corks and set the bottles in sand five or six weeks and then drink it Another Meath Take twenty Gallons of fair spring-Spring-water Boil it a quarter of an hour then let it stand till the next day Then beat into it so much honey as will make it so strong as to bear an Egg the breadth of a two pence above the water The next day boil it up with six small handfulls of Rosemary a pound and a half of Ginger being scraped and bruised and the whites of twenty Eggs together with their shells beaten together and well mingled with the Liquor Clarifie it and skim it very clean still as the scum riseth leaving the Ginger and Rosemary in it Let it stand till the next day then Tun it up and take some New-ale-yest the whites of two Eggs a spoonful of flower beat all these together and put it on the top of the barrel when the barrel is full Let it work and when it hath done working stop it up close for three wâ—eks or a month Then you may bottle it and a few days after you may drink it Another Take three Gallons of water and boil in it a handful of Rose-mary or rather the flowers Cowslips Sage-flowers Agrimony Betony and Thyme ana one handful When it hath taken the strength of the herbs strain it through a hair-sieve and let it cool twenty hours Then to three Gallons of the clear part of this decoction put one Gallon of honey and mingle it very well with your hand till it bear an Egg the breadth of a groat Then boil it and skim â—t as long as any scum will rise Afterwards let it cool twenty four hours Then put to it a small quantity of Ale-barm and skim the thin-barm that doth rise on it morning and evening with a feather during four days And so put it up into your vessel and hang in it a thin linnen bag with two Ounces of good White-ginger bruised therein And stop it up close for a quarter of a year Then you may drink it Another Take a quart of honey to a Gallon of water set the Kettle over the fire and stir it now and then that the honey may melt let it boil an hour you must boil in it a Sprig or two of Winter-savory as much of Sweet-marjoram put it into rubs ready scalded till the next day towards evening Then tun it up into your vessel let it work for three days after which hang a bag in the barrel with what quantity of Mace and sliced Nutmeg you please To make it stronger then this 't is but adding more hony to make it bear an Egg the breadth of a six pence or something more You may bottle it out after a month when you please This is the way which is used in Sussex by those who are accounted to make it best Another Receipt Take to every Gallon of Fountain-water a good quart of honey Set the water on the fire till it be pretty warm then take it off and put in your honey and stir it till it be dissolved Then put into every three Gallons two handfuls of Thyme two good handfuls of Strawberry-leaves one handful of Organ one handful of Fennel-roots the heart being taken out and one handful of Parsley-roots the heart taken out But as for the herbs it must be according to the constitution of them for whom the Mead is intended Then set the Herbs in it on the fire to boil for half an hour still skimming it as the scum riseth it must boil but half an hour then take it off the fire and presently strain it from the herbs and let it stand till it be fully cold then pour it softly off the bottom and put it in a vessel fit for it and put a small quantity of barm in it and mingle it with it and when it hath wrought up which will be in three or four days skim off that barm and set on fresh but the second
bâ—rm must not be mingled with the Meath but onely poured on the top of it Take an Ounce of Nutmeg sliced one Ounce of Ginger sliced one Ounce of Cinnamon cut in pieces and boil them a pretty while in a quart of White-wine or Sack when this is very cold strain it and put the Spices in a Canvass-bag to hang in your Meath and pour in the Wine it was boiled in This Meath will be drinkable when it is a fortnight or three weeks old To make Metheglin that looks like White-wine Take to twelve gallons of water a handful of each of these Herbs Parsley Eglantine Rosemary Strawberry-leaves Wild-â—hyme Baulme Liver-wort Betony Scabious when the water begins to boil cast in the herbs let them boil a quarter of an hour then strain out the herbs and when it is almost cold then put in as much of the best honey you can get as wâ—ll bear an Egg to the breadth of two pence that is till you can see no more of the Eggâ— above the water then a two pence will cover Lave it and stir it till you see all the honey be melted then boil it well half an hour at the least skim it well and put in the whites of six Eggs beaten to clarifie it Then strain it into some woodden vessels and when it is almost coâ—d put some Ale-barm into it And when it worketh well Tun it into some well seasoned vessel where neither Ale nor Beer hath been for marring the colour of it When it hath done working if you like it Take a quantity of Cloves Nutmegs Mace Cinnamon Ginger or any of these that you like best and bruise them and put them in a boulter bag and hang it in the vessel Put not too much of the Spice because many do not like the taste of much Spice If you make it at Michaelmas you may tap it at Christmas but if you keep it longer it will be the better It will look pure and drink with as much spirit as can be and very pleasant To make white Metheglin Take Sweet-marjoram Sweet-bryar-buds Violet-leaves Strawberry-leaves of each one handful and a good handful of Violet flowers the dubble ones are the best broad Thyme Borrage Agrimony of each half a handful and two or three branches of Rosemary The feeds of Carvi Coriander and Fennel of each two spoonfuls and three or four blades of largemace Boil all these in eight Gallons of running-water three quarters of an hour Then strain it and when it is but blood-warm put in as much of the best â—oney as will make the Liquor bear an Egg the breadth of six pence above the water Then boâ—l it again as long as any scum will rise Then set it abroad a cooling and when it is almost cold put in half a pint of good Ale-barm and when it hath wrought till you perceive the barm to fall then Tun it and let it work in the barrel till the barm leaveth rising filling it up every day with some of the same Liquor When you stop it up put in a bag with one Nutmeg sliced a little whole Cloves and Mace a stick of Cinnamon broken in pieces and a grain of good Musk. You may make this a little before Mâ—chaelmas and it will be fit to drink at Lent This is Sir Edward Bainton's Receipt Which my Lord of Portland who gave it me saith was the best he ever drunk To make a small Metheglin Take four Gallons of water and set it over the fire Put into it when it is warm eight pounds of honey as the scum riseth take it clean off When it is clear put into it three Nutmegs quartered three or four Races of Ginger sliced Then let all boil a whole hour Then take it off the fire and put to it two handfuls of ground Malt stir it about with a round stick till it be as cold as wort when you put yest to it Then strain it out into a pot or Tub that hath a spiggot and â—aucet and put to it a pint of very good Ale-yest so let it work for two days Then cover it close for about four or five days and so draw it our into bottles It will be ready to drink within three weeks To make Meath Take to six quarts of water a quart of the best honey and put it on the fire and stir it till the honey is melted and boil it well as long as any scum riseth and now and then put in a little cold water for this will make the scum rise keep your kettle up as full as you did put it on when it is boiled enough about half an hour before you take it off then take a quantity of Ginger sliced and well scraped first and a good quantity of Rosemary and boil both together Of the Rosemary and Ginger you may put in more or less for to please your taste And when you take it off the fire strain it into your vessel either a well seasoned-tub or a great cream pot and the next morning when it is cold pour off softly the top from the settlings into another vessel and then put some little quantity of the best Ale-barm to it and cover it with a thin cloth over it if it be in summer but in the winter it will be longer a ripening and therefore must be the warmer covered in a close place and when you go to bottle it take with a feather all the barm off and put it into your bottles and stop it up close In ten days you may drink it If you think six quarts of water be too much and would have it stronger then put in a greater quantity of honey Metheglin or Sweetâ—drink of My Lady Stuart Take as much water as will fill your Firkin of Rosemary Bays Sweet-bryar Broad-thyme Sweet-majoram of each a handful set it over the fire until the herbs have a little coloured the water then take it off and when it is cold put in as much honey till it will bear an Egg Then lave it three days morning and evening After that boil it again and skim it very clean and in the boiling clarifie it with the whites of six Eggs shells and all well beaten together Then take it off and put it to cool and when it is cold put it into your vessel and put to it three spoonfuls of yest stop it close and keep it till it be old at least three months A Metheglin for the Colick and Stone of the same Lady Take one Gallon of Honey to seven Gallons of water boil it together and skim it well then take Pelitory of the Wall Saxiâ—rage Betony Parsley Groundsel of each a handful of the seeds of Parsley of Nettles Fennel and Carraway-seeds Anisseeds and Grumelseeds of each two Ounces The roots of Parsley of Alexander of Fennel and Mallows of each two Ounces being small cut let all boil till near three Gallons of the Liquor is wasted Then take it off the fire and let it
stand till it be cold then cleanse it from the drugs and let it be put into a clean vessel well stopped taking four Nutmegs one Ounce and half of Ginger half an Ounce of Cinnamon twelve Cloves cut all these small and hang them in a bag into the vessel when you stop it up When it is a fortnight old you may begin to drink of it every morning a good draught A Receipt for Metheglin of My Lady Windebanke Take four Gallons of water add to it these Herbs and Spices following Pellitory of the Wall Sage Thyme of each a quarter of a handful as much Clove gilly-flowers with half as much Borage and Bugloss flowers a little Hyssop Five or six Eringo-roots three or four Parsley-roots one Fennel-root the pith taken out a â—ew Red-nettle-roots and a little Harts-tongue Boil these Roots and Herbs half an hour Then take out the Roots and Herbs and put in the Spices grosly beaten in a Canvass-bag viz. Cloves Mace of each half an Ounce and as much Cinnamon of Nutmeg an Ounce with two Ounces of Ginger and a Gallon of Honey boil all these together half an hour longer but do not skim it at all let it boil in and set â—t a cooling after you have taken it off the fire When it is cold put six spoonfuls of barm to it and let it work twelve hours at least then Tun it and put a little Limon-peel into it and then you may bottle it if you please Another of the same Lady To four Gallons of water put one Gallon of honey warm the water Luke-warm before you put in your honey when it is dissolved set it over the fire and let it boil half an hour with these Spices grosly beaten and put in a Canvass-bag namely half an Ounce of Ginger two Nutmegs a few Cloves and a little Mace and in the boiling put in a quart of cold water to raise the scum which you must take clean off in the boiling If you love herbs put in a little bundle of Rosemary Bays Sweet-marjoram and Eglantine Let it stand till it is cold then put into it half a pint of Ale-barm and let it work twelve hours then Tun it but take out the bundle of herbs first To make Metheglin Take to every Gallon of Honey three Gallons of water and put them together and set them over so genâ—le a fire as you might endure to break it in the water with your hand When the Honey is all melted put in an Egg and let it fall gently to the bottom and if your Egg rise up again to the top of the Liquor then it is strong enough of the Honey But if it lie at the bottom you must put in more honey and stir it till it doth rise If your honey be very good it will bear half a Gallon of water more to a Gallon of Honey Then take Sweet-bryar Bays Rosemary Thyme Marjoram Savoury of each a good handfull which you must â—ye up all together in a bundle This Proportion of Herbs will be sufficient for twelve Gallons of Metheglin and according to the quantity of Metheglin you make you must add or diminish your Herbs When you have put these things together set it over a quick fire and let it boil as fast as you can for half an hour or better skimming of it very clean and clarifying it with the whites of two or three Eggs. Then take it from the fire and put it into some clean vessel or other and let it stand till the next morning Then pour the Clear from the dregs and Tun it up putting in a little bag of such Spice as you like whereof Ginger must be the most After it hath stood three or four days you may put in two or three spoon-fulls of good Ale-yest it will make it the sooner ready to drink It must work before you stop it up The older your Honey is the whiter your Metheglin will be Meath with Raisins Put forty Gallons of water into your Caldron and with a stick take the height of the water making a notch whâ—n the superficies of the water cometh Then put to the water ten Gallons of Honey which dissolve with much Laving it then presently boil it gently skimming it all the while till it be free from scum Then put into it a thin bag of boulter-cloth containing forty pound weight of the best blew Raisins of the Sun well picked and washed and wiped dry and let the bag be so large that the Raisins may lie at ease and loosly in it When you perceive that the Raisins are boiled enough to be very soft that you may strain out all their substance take out the bag and strain out all the Liquor by a strong Press Put it back to the Honey-liquor and boil all together having thrown away the husks of the Raisins with the bag till your Lâ—qâ—or be sunk down to the notch of your stick which is the sign of due strength Then let it cool in a woodden vessel and let it run through a strainer to sever it from the settlings and put it into a strong vessel that hath had Sack or Muscadine in it not filling it to within three fingers breadth of the top for otherwise it will break the vessel with working and leave the bung open whiles it worketh which will be six weeks very strongly though it be put into a cold cellar And after nine moneths you may begin to drink it Morello Wine To half an Aume of white wine take twenty pounds of Morello Cherries the stalks being first plucked off Bruise the Cherries and break the stones Pour into the Wine the juyce that comes out from the Cherries but put all the solid substance of them into a long bag of boulter-cloth and hang it in the Wine at the bung so that it lie not in the bottom but only reach to touch it and therefore nail it down at the mouth of the bung Then stop it close For variety you may put some clear juyce of Cherries alone but drawn from a larger proportion of Cherries into another parcel of Wine To either of them if you will Aromatise the drink tâ—ke to this quantity two Ounces of Cinnamon grosly broken and bruâ—sed and put it in a little bag at the spiggot that all the wine you draw may run through the Cinnamon You must be careful in bruising the Cherries and breaking the stones For if you do all at once the Liquor will sparkle about But you must first bruise the Cherries gently in a mortar and rub through a sieve all that will pass and strain the Residue hard through your hands Then beat the remaining hard so strongly as may break all the stones Then put all together and strain the clean through a subtil strainer and put the solider substance into the bag to hang in the Wine Currants-Wine Take a pound of the best Currants clean picked and pour upon them in a deep straight mouthed earthen vessel six pounds or
as if it were a little tilted into a barrel which must not be full by about two fingers Leave the bung open for the Air to come in upon a superficies all along the barrel to hinder it from fermenting but not so large a superficies as to endanger dying by the airs depredating too many spirits from it The drift in both these settlings is that the grosser parts consisting of the substance of the Apple may settle to the bottom and be severed from the Liquor for it is that which maketh it work again upon motion or change of weather and spoils it After twenty four hours draw of it to see if it be clear by the settling of all dregs above which your spigot must be If it be not clear enough draw it from the thick dregs into another vessel and let it settle there twenty four hours This vessel must be less then the first because you draw not all out of the first If then it should not be clear enough draw it into a third yet lesser then the second but usually it is at the first When it is clear enough draw it into bottles filling them within two fingers which stop close After two or three days visit them that if there be a danger of their working which would break the bottles you may take out the stopples and let them stand open for half a quarter of an hour Then stop them close and they are secure for ever after In cold freesing weather set them upon Hay and cover them over with Hay or Straw In open weather in Winter transpose them to another part of the Cellar to stand upon the bare ground or pavement In hot weather seâ— them in sand The Cider of the Apples of the last season as Pippins not Peermains nor codlings will last till the Summer grow hot Though this never work 't is not of the Nature of Stummed Wine because the naughty dregs are not leâ—t in it Doctor Harvey's pleasant Water-cider whereof He used to drink much making it His Ordinary Drink Take one Bushel of Pippins cut them into slices with the Parings and Cores boil them in twâ—lve Gallons of water till the goodness of them be in the water and that consumed about three Gallons Then put it into an Hypocras-bag made of Cotton and when it is clear run out and almost cold sweeten it with five pound of Brown-sugar and put a pint of Ale-yest to it and set it a working two nights and days Then skim off the yest clean and put it into bottles and let it stand two or three days till the yest fall dead at the top Then take it off clean with a knife and fill it up a little within the neck that is to say that a little aboâ—t a fingers breadth of the neck be empty between the superficies of the Liquor and the bottom of the stopple and then stop them up and â—ye them or else it will drive out the Corks Within a fortnight you may drink of it It will keep five or six weeks Ale with Honey Sir Thomas Gower makes his pleasant and wholesom drink of Ale and Honey thus Take fourty Gallons of small Ale and five Gallons of Honey When the Ale is ready to Tun and is still warm take out ten Gallons of it which whiles it is hot mingle with it the five Gallons of Honey stirring it exceeding well with a clean arm till they be perfectly incorporated Then cover it and let it cool and stand still At the same time you begin to dissolve the honey in thâ—s parcel you take the other of thirty Gallons also warm and Tun it up with barm and put it into a vessel capable to hold all the whole quantity of Ale and Honey and let it work there and because the vessel will be so far from being full that the gross foulness of the Ale cannot work over make holes in the sides of the Barrel even with the superficies of the Liquor in it out of which the gross feculence may puâ—ge and these holes must be fast shut when you put in the rest of the Ale with the Honey which you must do when you see the strong workâ—ng of the other is over and that it works but gently which may be after two or three or four days according to the warmth of the season You must warm your solution of honey when you put it in to be as warm as Ale when you Tun it and then it will set the whole a working a fresh and casting out more foulness which it would do too violently if you put it in at the first of the Tunnâ—ng it It is not amiss that some feculence lie thick upon the Ale and work not all out for that will keep in the spirits After you have dissolved the honey in the Ale you must boil it a little to skim it but skim it not till it have stood a while from the fire to cool else you wâ—ll skim away much of the Honey which will still rise as long as it boileth If you will not make so great a quantity at a time do it in less in the same proportions He makes it about Michaelmas for Lent When strong Beer groweth too hard and flat for want of Spirits take four or five Gallons of it out of a Hogshead and boil five pound of honey in it and skim it and put it warm into the Beer and after it hath done working stop it up close This will make it quick pâ—easant and stronger Small Ale for the Stone The Ale that I used to drink constantly of was made in these proportions Take fourteen Gallons of Water and half an Ounce of Hops boil them near an hour together Then pour it upon a peck of Malt. Have a care the Malt be not too small ground for then it will never make clear Ale Let it soak so near two hours Then let it run from the Malt and boil it only one walm or two Let it stand cooling till it be cool enough to work with barm which let be of Beer rather than Ale about half a pint After it hath wrought some hours when you see it come to it's height and is near beginning to fall in working Tun it into a barrel of eight Gallons and in four or five days it will be fit to broach to drink Since I have caused the wort to be boiled a good half hour since again I boil it a good hour and it is much the better becaâ—se the former Ale tasted a little Raw. Now because it consumes in boiling and would be too strong if this Malt made a less proportion of Ale I have added a Gallon of water at the first taking fifteen Gallons in stead of fourteen Since I have added half a peck of Malt to the former proportions to make it a little stronger in Winter Apple Drink with Sugar Honey c. A very pleasant drink is made of Apples thus Boil sliced Apples in water to
make the water strong of Apples as when you make to drink it for coolness and pâ—easure Sweeten iâ— with Sugar to your tast such a quantity of sliced Apples as would make so much water strong enough of Apples and then bottle it up close for three or four months There will come a thick mother at the top which being taken off all the rest will be very clear and quick and pleasant to the taste beyond any Cider It will be the better to most tasts if you put a very little Rosemary into the liquor when you boil it and a little Limon-peel into each bottle when you bottle it up To make Stepponi Take a Gallon of Conduit-water one pound of blew Raisins of the Sun stoned and half a pound of Sugar Squeese the juyce of two Limons upon the Raisins and Sugar and slice the rindes upon them Boil the water and pour it so hot upon the ingredients in an earthen pot and stir them well together So let it stand twenty four hours Then put it into bottles having first let it run through a strainer and set them in a Cellar or other cool place Weak Honey-drink Take nine pints of warm fountain water and dissolve in it one pint of pure White-honey by laving it therein till it be dissolved Then boil it gently skimming it all the while till all the scum be perfectly scummed off and after that boil it a little longer peradventure a quarter of an hour In all it will require two or three hours boiling so that at last one third part may be consumed About a quarter of an hour before you cease boâ—ling and take it from the fire put to it a little spoonful of cleansed and sliced Ginger and almost half as much of the thin yellow rinde of Orange when you are even ready to take it from the fire so as the Orange boil only one walm in it Then pour it into a well-glased strong deep great Gally-pot and let it stand so till it be almost cold that it be scarce Luke-warm Then put to it a little silver-spoonful of pure Ale-yest and work it together with a Ladle to make it ferment as soon as it beginneth to do so cover it close with a fit cover and put a thick dubbled woollen cloth about it Cast all things so that thâ—s may be done when you are going to bed Next morning when you rise you will find the barm gathered all together in the middle scum it clean off with a silver-spoon and a feather and bottle up the Liquor stopping it very close It will be ready to drink in two or three days but it will keep well a monâ—h or two It will be from the first very quick and pleasant Mr. Webb's Ale and Bragot Five Bushels of Malt will make two Hogsheads The first running makes one very good Hogshead but not very strong the second is very weak To this proportion boil a quarter of a Pound of Hops in all the water that is to make the two Hogsheads that is two Ounces to each Hogshead You put your water to the Malt in the Ordinary way Boil it well when you come to work it with yest take very good Beer-yest not Ale-yest To make Bragot He takes the first running of such Ale and boils a less proportion of Honey in it then when He makes His ordinary Meath but dubble or triple as much spice and herbs As for Example to twenty Gallons of the Strong-wort he puts eight or ten pound according as your taste liketh more or less honey of honey But at least triple as much herbs and triple as much spice as would serve such a quantity of small Mead as He made Me. For to a stronger Mâ—ad you put a greater proportion of Herbs and Spice then to a small by reason that you must keep it a longer time before you drink it and the length of time mellows and tames the taste of the herbs and spice And when it is tunned in the vessel after working with the barm you hang in it a bag with bruised spices rather more then you boiled in it which is to hang in the barrel all the while you draw it He makes also Mead with the second weak running of the Ale and to this He useth the same proportions of honey herbs and spice as for his small Mead of pure water and useth the same manner of boiling working with yest and other Circumstances as in making of that The Countess of Newport's Cherry Wine Pick the best Cherries free from rotten and pick the stalk from them put them into an earthen Paâ— Bruise them by griping and straining them in your hands and let them stand all night on the next day strain them out through a Napkin which if it be a course and thin one let the juyce run through a Hippocras or gelly-bag upon a pound of fine pure Sugar in powder to every Gallon of juyce and to every gallon put a pound of Sugar and put it into a vessel Be sure your vessel be full or your wine will be spoiled you must let it stand a month before you bottle it and in every bottle you must put a lump a piece as big as a Nutmeg of Sugar The vessel must not be stopt until it hath done working Strawberry Wine Bruise the Strawberries and put them into a Linnen-bag which hâ—th been a little used that â—o the Lâ—quor may run through more easily You hang in the bag at the bung into the vessel before you do put in your Strawberries The quantity of the fruit is left to your discretion for you will judge to be there enough of them when the colour of the wine is high enough During the working you leave the bung open The working being over you stop your vessel Cherry-wine is made after the same fashion But it is a little more troublesome to break the Cherry-stones But it is necessary that if your Cherries be of the black sowre Cherries You put to it a little Cinnamon and a few Cloves To make Wine of Châ—rries alone Take one hundred pounds weight or what quantity you please of ripe but â—ound pure dry and well gathered Cherries Bruise and mash them with your hands to press out all their juyce which strain through a boulter cloth into a deep narrow Woodden tub and cover it close with clothes It will begin to work and ferment within three or four hours and a thick foul scum will rise to the top Skim it off as it riseth to any good head and presently cover it again Do thus till no more great quantity of scum arise which will be four or five time or more And by this means the Liquor will become clear all the gross muddy parts rising up in scum to the top When you find that the heâ—ght of the working is past and that it begins to go less tun it into a barrel letâ—ing it run again through a boulter to keep out all the gross â—eculent
within them the end of the stalk which in time will turn to seed Take that seedy end then very tender and pick from it the little excrescencies about it and cut it into short pieces and boil them and dress them as you would do Pease and they will taste like Pease and be very savoury Boiled Rice dry The manner of boiling Rice to eat with Butter is this In a Pipkin pour upon it as much water as will swim a good singers breadth over it Boil it gently till it be tender and all the water drunk into the Rice which may be in a quarter of an hour or less Stir it often with a woodden spatule or spoon that it burn not to the bottom But break it not When it is enough pour it into a dish and stew it with some Butter and season it with sugar and Cinnamon This Rice is to appear dry excepting for the Butter that is melted in it Marrow Sops With Wine Make thin tosts or slices of light French bread which dry well or toste a little by the fire then Soak them in Canary or old Malaga-wine or fine Muscat and lay a row of them in a deep dish or bason then a row of lumps of Marrow upon that then strew a little fine sugar mingled with some Powder of Cinnamon and Ambergreece and Nutmeg if you like it upon that Then another row of sops c. repeating this till the dish be full and more Sugar Cinnamon and Amber at the top then on the other rows If you will you may put a row of stoned Raisins of the Sun upon every row of Marrow Then cover the dish and put it in an Oven to bake for half an hour or till the Marrow be sufficiently baked Capon in White-broth My Lady of Monmouth boileth a Capon with white broth thus Make reasonable good broth with the crag-ends of Necks of Mutton and Veal of which you must have so much as to be at least three quarts of White-broth in the dish with the Capon when all is done else it will not come high enough upon the Capon Beat a quarter of a pound of blanched Almonds with three or four spoonfuls of Cream and if you will a little Rose water then add some of your broth to it so to draw out all their substance mingling it with the rest of the broth Boil your Capon in Fair-water by it self and a Marrow-bone or two by themselves in other water Likewise some Chess-nuts in stead of which you may use Pistaccios or macerated Pine kernels and in other water some Skirrits or Endive or Parsley-roots according to the season Also plumpsome Raisins of the Sun and stew some sliced Dates with Sugar and water When all is ready to joyn beat two or three New-laid-eggs whites and all with some of the White-broth that must then be boiling and mingle it with the rest and let it boil on and mingle the other prepared things with it as also a little sliced Oringiado from which the harp Candy-sugar hath been soaked off with warm-water or a little peel of Orange or some Limon Pickled with Sugar and Vinegar such as serves for Salets which you throw away after it hath been a while boiled in it and put a little Sack to your broth and some Ambergreece if your will and a small portion of Sugar and last of all put in the Marrow in lumps that you have knocked out of the boiled bones Then lay your Capon taken hot from the Liquor he boiled in upon sippets and slices of tosted light bread and pour your broth and mixture upon it and cover it with another dish and let all stew together a while then serve it up You must remember to season your broth in due time with salt and such spices as you like To butter Eggs with Cream Take to a dozen of Eggs a pint of Cream beat them well together and put three quarters of a pound of Butter to them and so set them on the fire to harden and stir them till they are as hard as you would have them To make Cock-Ale Take eight Gallons of Ale take a Cock and boil him well then take four pounds of Raisins of the Sun well stoned two or three Nutmegs three or four flakes of Mace half a pound of Dates beat these all in a Mortar and put to them two quarts of the best Sack and when the Ale hath done working put these in and stop it close six or seven days and then bottle it and a month after you may drink it To make plague-Plague-water Take a pound of Rue of Rosemary Sage Sorrel Celandine Mugwort of the tops of red brambles of Pimpernel Wild-dragoâ—s Agrimony Balm Angelica of each a pound Put these Compounds in a Pot fill it with white-White-wine above the herbs so let it stand four days Then still it for your use in a Limbeck Another Plague-water Take Rue Agrimony Wormwood Celandine Sage Balm Mugwort Dragons Pimpernel Mary-gold Fetherfew Burnet Sorrel and Elicampane-roots scraped and sliced small Scabious Wood-betony Brown-may weed Mints Avence Tormentil Cardâ—us benedictus and Rosemary as much as of any thing else and Angelica if you will You must have like weight of all them except Rosemary aforesaid which you must have twice as much of as of any of the rest then mingle them altogether and shred them very small then steep them in the best VVhite-wine you can get three days and three nights stirring them once or twice a day putting no more wine then will cover the Herbs well then still it in a Common-still and take not too much of the first-first-water and but a little of the second according as you feel the strength else it will be sower There must be but half so much Elicampane as of the rest To make rasbery-Rasbery-wine Take four Gallons of Deal wine put it into an earthen jugg put to it four Gallons of Rasberries let them stand so infusing seven days then press it out gently Then infuse as many more Rasberries seven days longer and so three times if you please put to it as much fine Sugar as will make it pleasant Put it into a Runlet close stopped let it stand till it is fine and then draw it into bottles and keep it till it be fine To keep Quinces all the year good Take all your least and worst Quinces that are sound and cut them in pieces with all the Corings and Parings you make boil them more then an hour then put the Quinces into this boiling liquor and take them forth presently not letting them boil and lay them to cool one by one a part then take the liquor and strain it and put for every Gallon of liquor half a pint of honey then boil it and scum it clean let it be cold and then put your Quinces into a pot or tub that they be covered with the liquor and stop it very close with your Paste To make a White-pot Take three quarts of Cream and
THE CLOSET Of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. OPENED Whereby is DISCOVERED Several ways for making of Metheglin Sider Cherry-wine c. TOGETHER WITH Excellent Directions FOR COOKERY As also for Preserving Conserving Candying c. Published by his Son's Consent London Printed by E. C. for H. Brome at the Star in Little Britain 1669. The truly Learned and Hono ble Sr. Kenelme Digby Kt. Chancellor to the Q Mother Aged 62. Gross Sculpsit To the Reader THis Collection full of pleasing variety and of such usefulness in the Generality of it to the Publique coming to my hands I should had I forborn the Publication thereof have trespassed in a very considerable concern upon my Countrey-men The like having not in every particular appeared in Print in the English tongue There needs no Rhetoricating Floscules to set it off The Authour as is well known having been a Person of Eminency for his Learning and of Exquisite Curiosity in his Researches Even that Incomparable Sir Kenelme Digbie Knight Fellow of the Royal Society and Chancellour to the Queen Mother Et omen in Nomine His name does sufficiently Auspicate the Work I shall only therefore add That there is herein as by the Table hereunto affix'd will evidently to thee appear a sufficiency of Solids as well as Liquids for the sating the Curiosities of each or the nicest Palate and according to that old Saw in the Regiment of Health Incipe cum Liquido c. The Liquids premitted to the Solids These being so Excellent in their kinde so beneficial and so well ordered I think it unhandsome if not injurious by the trouble of any further Discourse to detain thee any longer from falling to Fall to therefore and much good may it do thee Fare-well A Receipt to make Metheglin as it is made at Liege Communicated by Mr. Masillon TAke one Measure of Honey and three Measures of Water and let it boil till one measure be boiled away so that there be left three measures in all as for Example take to one Pot of Honey three Pots of Water and let it boil so long till it come to three Pots During which time you must Skim it very well as soon as any scum riseth which you are to continue till there rise no scum more You may if you please put to it some spice to wit Cloves and Ginger the quantity of which is to be proportioned according as you will have your Meath strong or weak But this you do before it begin to boil There are some that put either Yeast of Beer or Leaven of bread into it to make it work But this is not necessary at all and much less to set it into the Sun Mr. Masillon doth neither the one nor the other Afterwards for to Tun it you must let it grow Luke-warm for to advance it And if you do intend to keep your Meathe a long time you may put into it some â—opps on this fashion Take to every Barrel of Meathe a Pound of Hops without leaves that is of Ordinary Hops used for Beer but well cleansed taking only the Flowers without the Green-leaves and stalks Boil this pound of Hops in a Pot and half of fair water till 〈◊〉 come to one Pot and this quantity is sufficient for a Barrel of Meathe A Barrel at Liege holdeth ninety Pots and a Pot is as much as a Wine quart in England I have since been informed from Liege that a Pot of that Countrey holdeth 48 Oâ—nces of Apothecary's measure which I judge to be a Pottle according to London measure or two Wine-quarts When you Tun your Meath you must not fill your Barrel by half a foot that so it may have room to work Then let it stand six weeks slightly stopped which being expired if the Meath do not work stop it up very close Yet must you not fill up the Barrel to the very brim After six Months you draw off the clear into another Barrel or strong Bottles leaving the dregs and filling up your new Barrel or Bottels and stopping it or them very close The Meath that is made this way Viz. In the Spring in the Month of April or May which is the proper time for making of it will keep many a year White Metheglin of my Lady Hungerford which is exceedingly praised Take your Honey and mix it with fair water until the Honey be quite dissolved If it will bear an Egge to be above the liquor the breadth of a groat it is strong enough if not put more Honey to it till it be so strong Then boil it till it be clearly and well skimed Then put in one good handâ—ul of Strawberry-leaves and half a handful of violet leaves and half as much Sorrel a Douzen tops of Rosemary four or five tops of Baulme-leaves a handful of Harts-tongue and a handful of Liver-worth a little Thyme and a little Red-sage Let it boil about an hour then put it into a Woodden Vessel where let it stand till it be quite cold Then put it into the Barrel Then take half an Ounce of Cloves as much Nutmeg four or five Races of Ginger bruise it and put it into a fine bag with a stone to make it sink that it may hang below the middle Then stop it very close The Herbs and Spices are in proportion for six Gallons Since my Lady Hungerford sent me this Receipt she sent me word that she now useth and liketh better to make the Decoction of Herbs before you put the Honey to it This Proportion of Herbs is to make six Gallons of Decoction so that you may take eight or nine Gallons of water When you have drawn out inâ—o your water all the vertue of the Heâ—bs throw them away and take the clear Decoction leaving the settâ—ings and when it is Lukewarm Dissolve your proportion of Honey in it After it is well dissolved and laved with strong Arms or woodden Instruments like Battle-doors or Scoops boil it gently till you have taken away all the scum then make an end of well boyling it about an hour in all Then pour it into a wooden vessel and let it stand till it be cold Then pour the clear through a Sieve of hair ceasing pouring when you come to the â—oul thick settling Tun the clear into your vessel without Barm and stop it up close with the Spices in it till you perceive by the hissing that it begins to work Then give it some little vent else the Barrel would break When it is at the end of the working stop it up close She useth to make it at the end of Summer when she takes up her Honey and begins to drink it in Lent But it will be better if you defer piercing it till next Winter When part of the Barrel is drunk she botteleth the rest which maketh it quicker and better You clear the Decoction from the Herbs by a Hair-sieve Some Notes about Honey The Honey of dry open Countries where there is
it may be kept long in the Barrel so it be filled up to the top and kept very close stopp'd I conceive it will be exceeding good thus when you have a strong Honey-liquor of three parts of water to one of Honey well-boiled and scummed put into it Lukewarm or better as soon as you take it from the fire some Clove-gilly-flowers first wiped and all the whites clipped off one good handful or two to every Gallon of Liquor Let these infuse 30 or 40 hours Then strain it from the flowers and either work it with yeast or set it in the Sun to work when it hath almost done working put into it a bag of like Gâ—lly-flowers and if they are â—â—ly dried I think they are the better hanging it in at the bung And if you will put into it some spirit of wine that hath drawn a high Tâ—ncture from Clove-gilly flowers dried I conceive is best and some other that hâ—th done the like from flowers and tops oâ— Rosemary and some that hath done the like from Cinnamon and Ginger I believe it will be much the nobler and last the longer I conceive that bitter and strong herbs as Rosemary Bayes Sweet-majoram Thyme and the like do conserve Meathe the better and longer being as it were in stead of hops But neither must they no more then Clove-gilly-flowers be too much boiled For the Volatil pure Spirit flies away very quickly Therefore rather inâ—use them Beware of inâ—using Gilly-flower in â—ny vessel of Metal excepting silver For all Metals will spoil and dead their colour Glased earth is best Sack with Clove-gilly flowers If you will make a Cordial Liquor of Sack with Clove-gillyflowers you must do thus Prepare your Gillyflowers as is said before and put them into great double glass-bottles that hold two gallons a piece or more and put to every gallon of Sack a good half pound of the wiped and cut flowers puâ—ting in the flowers first and then the Sack upon them Stop the glasses exceeding close and set them in a temperate Cellar Let them stand so till you see that the Sack hath drawn out all the principal tincture from them and that the flowers begin to look palish with an eye of pale or faint in Colour Then pour the Sack from them and throw away the exhausted flowers or distil a spirit from them For if you let them remain longer in the Sack they will give an earthy tast to them You may then put the tincted Sack into fit bottles for your use stopping them very close But if the season of the flowers be not yet past your Sack will be better if you put it upon new flowers which I conceive will not be the worse but peradventure the better if they be a little dried in the shade If you drink a Glass or two of this sack at a meal you will find it a great Cordial Upon better consideration I conceive the best way of making Hydromâ—l with Clove-gilly-flowers is thus Boil your simple Liquor to it's full height with three parts of water to one of Honey take a small parcel out to make a strong infusion of flowers pouring it boylâ—ng hot upon the flowers in earthen vessels If you have great quantity as six to one of Liquor you will easily draw out the tincture in fourteen or sixteen hours infusion otherwise you may quicken your liquor with a parcel of Sack In the mean time make the great quantity of Liquor work with yest When it hath almost done fermenting but not quite put the infusion to it warm and let it ferment more if it will When that is almost done put to it a bag with flowers to hang in the bung I conceive that Hydromel made with Juniper-berries first broken and bruised boiled in it is very good Adde also to it Rosemary and Bayleaves Upon tryal of several ways I conclude as things yet appear to me that to keep Meath long it must not be fermented with yest unless you put Hops to it but put it in the barrel and let it ferment of it self keeping a thick plate of lead upon the bung to lie close upon it yet so that the working of the Liquor may raise it to purge out the foulness and have always some new made plain Liquor to fill it up as it sinks warm whiles it works but cold during three or four month's after Then stop the bung exceeding close And when you will make your Mead with Cherries or Morello-Cherries or Raspes or Bilberries or Black-cherries put their juyce to the Liquor when you tun it without ever boiling it therein about one quart of juyce to every three or four gallons of Liquor You may squeese out the clear juyce and mingle it with the Liquor and hang the Magma in a bag in the bung I think it is best to break the stones of the Cherries before you put their Magma into the bag Since I conceive that Clove-gilly-flowers must never be boiled in the Liquor that evaporateth their Spirits which are very volatile But make a strong infusion of them and besides hang a Bag of them in the bung I conceive that it is good to make the Liquor pretty strong not too much but so as the taste may be gratefull of some strong herbs as Rosemary Bay-leaves Sweet-marjoram Thyme Broad-thyme and the like For they preserve the drink and make it better for the stomack and head Sanding in the Sun is the best way of Fermentation when the drink is strong The Root of Angelica or Elecampane or Eringo or Orris may be good and pleasant to be boiled in the Liquor Raspes and Cherries and Bilberies are never to be boiled but their juyce put into the Liquor when it is tunning Uâ—e onely Morello-Cherries I think for pleasure and black ones for health I conceive it best to use very little spice of any kind in Meathes Metheglin composed by My self out of sundry Receipts In sixty Gallons of water boil ten handfuls of Sweet-bryar-leaves Eyebright Liverwort Agrimony Scabious Balme Wood-bettony Straw-berry-leaves Burnet of each four handfuls of Rosemary three handfuls of Minth Angelica Bayes and Wild-thyme Sweet-Marjoram of each two handfuls Six Eringo-roots When the water hath taken out the vertue of the herbs and roots let it settle and the next day pour off the clear and in every three Gallons of it boil one of honey scumming it well and putting in a little cold water now and then to make the scum rise as also some whites of Eggs. When it is clear scummed take it off and let it cool then work it with Ale-yest tun it up and hang in it a bag with Ginger Cinamom Cloves and Cardamom And as it worketh over put in some strong honey-drink warmed When it works no more stop it up close In twenty Gallons of water boil Sweet-bryar-leaves Eye-bright Rosemary Bayes Clove-gilly-flowers of each five handfuls and four Eringo-roots To every two gallons and a half of this decoction put one gallon of
be not onely perfectly dissolved but uniformly mixed throughout the water Then take out some of it in a great Woodden bowl or pail and put a good number ten or twelve New-laid-egges into it and as round ones as may be For long ones will deceive you in the swiming and stale ones being lighter then new will emerge out of the Liquor the breadth of a six pence when new ones will not a groats-breadth Therefore you take many that you make a medium of their several emergings unless you be certain that they which you use are immediately then laid and very round The rule is that a Groats â— breadth or rather but a three-pence of the Egg-shel must Swim above the Liquor which then put again into your Copper to boil It will be some while before it boil peradventure a good quarter of an hour but all that while scum will rise which skim away still as it riseth and it should be clear scummed by then it boileth which as soon as it doth turn up an hour Glass and let it boil well a good hour A good quarter before the hour is out put to it a pound of White-Ginger beaten exceedingly small and searsed which wâ—ll sever all the skins and course parts from the fine which having boiled a quarter of an hour so to make up the whole hour of boiling pour out the Liquor into wide open Vats to cool When it is quite cold put a pottle of New-ale-barm into a Pipe or Butt standing endwise with his head out and pour upon it a Pail-full of your cool Liquor out of one of the Vats which falling from high upon it with sorce will bâ—eak and dissipate the barm into atomâ— and mix it with the Liquor Pour immediately another pail-ful to that continuing to do so till all the Liquor be in Which by this time and this course will be uniformly mixed with the barm and begin to work Yet scoop and lade it well a while to make the mixtion more perâ—ect and set the working well on foot Then cover your But-head with a shâ—et onely in Summer but blankets in Winter and let your Liquor work about 24 hours or more The measure of that is till the barm which is raised to a great head beginnâ—th a little to fall Then presently scum of the thick head of the barm but take not all away so scâ—upulously but that there may remain a little white froth upon the face of the Liquor Whiâ—h scoop â—nd lade strongly mingling all to the botâ—om that this little remaining barm may by this agitation be mixed a new with the whole Then immediately Tun this Liquor into two hogsheads that have served for Spâ—nish-wine be â—ure to fill them qâ—ite full and there let it work two or three days that is to say till you see that all the seculent substance is wrought out and that what runneth out beginneth to be clear though a little whitish or frothy on the upperside of the stream that runs down along the outside of the hogshead If there should be a little more then to fill tâ—o hogshead put it in a Rundlet by it self Then take some very strong firm Paper and wet it on one side with some of the barm â—hâ—t works out and lay that side over the bung to cover it close The barm will make it stick fast to the hogshead This covering will serve for a moneth or two Then stop it close with strong Cork fiâ—ed to the hole with a linnen about it to presâ— it â—ast in But let a little vent with a peg in it be made in hogshead in some fit place above This may be fit to broach in five or six moneths but three weeks or a moneth before you do so put into each hâ—gshead half an ounce of Cinnamon and two ounces of Cloves beaten into most subtâ—ile powder Sometimes he leaves out the Cloves which will give it a most pleasant flavor and they as the Ginger did sink down to the bottoms and never troâ—ble the Liquor If they bâ— put in long before much more if they be boiled they loose all their taste and Spirits entirely This will last very well half a year drawing But if you stay broaching it a year and then draw it into bottles it will keep admirable good three or four years growing to be much better then when broached at six months end It will be purer if you first boil the water by it self then let it settle 24 hours and pour the clear from the earthy sediment which will be great and dissolve your honey in that You may Atomatise it with Ambergreece or Musk or both if you like them by dissolving a very few Pastils in a Runlet of this Liquor when you draw it into little vessels as He useth to do after five or six moneths or with a few drops of the Extract of them This Metheglin is a great Balsom and strengthener of the Viscera is excellent in colds and coughs and consumptions For which last they use to burn it like wine or rather onely heat it Then dissolve the yolk of an Egge or two in a Pint of it and some fresh Butter and drink it warm in the morning fasting As it comes from the Barrel or Bottle it is used to be drunk a large draught without any alteration or admixtion with a toste early in the morning eating the toste when they intend to dine late Consider of making Metheglin thus with purified rain water of the Aequinoxe or Dew The handfuls of Herbs are natural large handfuls as much as you can take up in your hand not Apothecaries handfuls which are much less If a pottle of Barm do not make it work enough to your mind you may put in a little more Discretion and Experience must regulate that You may make small Meathe the same way putting but half the proportion of honey or less But then after three weeks or a months bar-relling you must bottle it An Excellent way to make Methegâ—in called the Liquor of Life with these following Ingredients Take Bugloss Borage Hyssop Organ Sweet-majoram Rosemary French-cowslip Colts-foot Thyme Burner Self-heal Sanicle a little Betony Blew-buttons Harts-tongue Meads-sweet Liverwort Coriander two ounces Bistort Saint John's wort Liquorish Two ounces of Carraways Two ounces of Yellow-saunders Balm Bugle Half a pound of Ginger and one ounce of Cloves Agrimony Tormentil-roots Cumsrey Fennel-root's Clowns-all-heal Maiden-hair Wall-rew Spleen-wort Sweet-oak Pauls-betony Mouseâ—ear For two Hogsheads of Metheglin you take two handfuls a piece of each herb Excepting Sanicle of which you take but half a handful You make it in all things as the white Meathe of Mr. Pierce's is made excepting as followeth For in that you boil the herbs but a quarter of an hour that the colour may be pale But in this where the deepness of the colour is not regarded you boil them a good hour that you may get all the vertue out of them Next for the strength of it whereas in
it remain a week in the barrel with a bag of Elder-flowers then bottle it 2. Small Take ten quarts of water and one of honey Balm a little Minth Cloves Limon-peel Elder-flowers a little Ginger wrought with a little yest bottle it after a night working 3. Strong Take ten Gallons of water thirteen quarts of honey with Angelica Borrage and Bugloss Rosemary Balm and Sweet-bryar pour it into a barrel upon three spoonfuls of yest hang in a bag Cloves Elder-flowers and a little Ginger 4. Very Strong Take ten Gallons of Water and four of honey with sea-worm-wood a little Sage Rosemary put it in a barrel after three days cooling Put no yest to it Stop it close and bottle it after three or four months 5. Very Strong To ten Gallons of water take four of honey Clarifie it with flower and put into it Angelica Rosemary Bayleaves Balm Barrel it without yest Hang in a bag Cloves Elder-flowers a lttle Ginger 6. Very strong Take ten Gallons of water and four of Honey Boil nothing in it Barrel it when cold without yest Hang in it a bag with Cloves Elder-flowers a llittle Ginger and Limon peel which throw away when it hath done working and stop it close You may make also strong and small by putting into it Orris-roots or with Rose-mary Betony Eyebright and Wood-sorrel or adding to it the tops of Hypericon with the flowers of it Sweet-bryar Lilly of the valley To make Meath Take three Gallons of water a quart of Honey if it be not strong enough you may adde more Boil it apace an hour and scum it very clean Then take it off and set it a working at such heat as you set Beer with good yest Then put it in a Runlet and at three days end draw it out in stone bottles into every one put a piece of Limon-peel and two Cloves It is only put into the Runlet whilest it worketh to avoid the breaking of the Bottles Sir John Arundel's White Meath Take three Gallons of Honey and twelve Gallons of water mix the honey and water very well together till the honey is dissolved so let it stand twelve hours Then put in a New-laid-egg if the Liquor beareth the Egg that you see the breadth of a groat upon the Egg dry you may set it over the fire if it doth not bear the Egg then you must adde a quart or three pints more to the rest and then set it over the fire and let it boil gently till you have skimed it very clean and clarified it as you would do Suggar with the whites of three New-laid-eggs When it is thus made clear from all scum let it boil a full hour or more till the fourth part of it is wasted then take it off the fire and let it stand till the next day Then put in into a vessel When it hath been in the barrel five or six days make a white tost and dip it into new yeast ans put the tost into the barrel and let it work When it hath done working stop it up very close This keep three quarters of a year You may drind in within half a year if you please You may adde in the boiling of what herbs you like the taste or what is Physical To make Metheglin Take eight Gallons of water and set it over a clear fire in a Kettle and when it is warm put into it sixteen pound of very good honey stir it well together till it be all mixed and when it boileth take off the scum and put in two large Nutmegs cut into quarters and so let it boil at least an hour Then take it off and put into it own good handfuls of grinded Malt and with a white staff keep beating it together till it be almost cold then strain it through a hair sieve into a tub and put to it a wine pint of Ale-yest and stir it very well together and when it is cold you may if you please Tun it up picsently in a vessel fit for it or else let it stand and work a day And when it hath done working in your vessel stop it up very close It will be three weeks or a month before it will be ready to drink To make white Meath Take six Gallons of water and put in six quarts of honey stirring it till the honey be throughly melted then set it over the fire and when it is ready to boil skim it very clean Then put in a quarter of ounce of Mace so much Ginger half an ounce of Nutmegs Sweet-marjoram Broad-thyme and Sweet-bryar of altogether a handful and boil them well therein Then set it by till it be through cold and then Barrel it up and keep it till it be ripe To make a Meath good for the Liver and Lungs Take of the Roots of Colts-foot Fennel and Fearn each four Ounces Of Succory-roots Sorrel-roots Strawbery-roots Bittersweet-roots each two Ounces of Scabious-roots and Elecampane-roots each an Ounce and a half Ground-ivy Hore-hound Oak of Jerusalem Lung-wort Liver-wort Maiden hair Harts-tongue of each two good-fulls Licorish four Ounces Jujubes Raisins of the Sun and Currents of each two Ounces let the roots be sliced and the herbs be broken a little with your hands and boil all these in twenty quarts of fair running water or if you have it in Rain water with five Pints of good white honey until one third part be boiled away then pour the Liquor though a jelly bag often upon a little Coriander-seeds and Cinnamon and when it runneth very clear put it into Bottles well stopped and set it cool for your use and drink every morning a good draught of it and at five in the afternoone To make white Metheglin Put to three Gallons of spring-Spring-water one of honey First let it gently melt then boil for an hour continually skiming it then put it into an earthen or a woodden vessel and when it is a little more then Blood-warm set it with Ale-yest and so let it stand twelve hours Then take off the yest and bottle it up Put into it Limon-peel and Cloves or what best pleaseth your raste of Spice or Herbs Eringo-roots put into it when it is boiling maketh it much better Note That if you make Hydromel by fermentation in the hot Sun which will last about fourty days and requireth the greater heat you must take it thence before it be quite ended working and stop it up very close and set it in a cold Cellar and not pierce it in two months at the soonest It will be very good this way if you make it so strong as to bear an Egge very boyant It is best made by taking all the Canicular days into your fermentation A very good Meath Put three parts of water to one of honey When the Honey is dissolved it is to bear an Egge boyant Boil it and skim it perfectly clear You may boil in it Pellitory of the wall Agrimony or what herds you please To every ten
Gallons of water take Ginger Cinnamon ana one Ounce Nutmegs half an Ounce Divide this quantity sliced and bruised into two parts Boil the one in the Meath severing it from the Liquor when it is boiled by running through a strainer and hang the other parcel in the barrel by the bung in a bag with a bullet in it When it is cold Tun it And then you may work it with barm if you please but it is most commended without To make white Metheglin Take the Hony-comb that the Honey is run out from them and lay them in water over night next day strain them and put the Liquor a boiling Then take the whites of two or three Eggs and clarifie the Liquor When you have so done skim it clean Then take a handful of Peny-royal four handfuls of Angelica a handful of Rosemary a handful of Borrage a handful of Maidenhair a handful of Harts-tongue of Liverwort of Water-cresses of Scurvy-grass ana a handful of the Roots of Marshmallows Parsley Fennel ana one Ounce Let all these boil together in the Liquor the space of a quarter of an hour Then strain the Liquor from them and let it cool till it be Blood-warm Put in so much honey until an Egge swim on it and when your honey is melted then put in into the Barrel When it is almost cold put a little Aleâ—barm to it And when it hath done working put into your barrel a bag of Spice of Nutmegs Ginger Cloves and Mace and grains good store and if you will put into a Lawn-bag two grains of Amber-greece and two grains of Musk and fasten it in the mouth of your barrel and so let it hang in the Liquor A most Excellent Metheglin Take one part of honey to eight parts of Rain or River-water let it boil gently together in a fit vessel till a third part be wasted skiming it very well The sign of being boiled enough is when a New-laid-egg swims upon it Cleanse it afterwards by letting it run through a clean Linnen-cloth and put it into a woodden Runlet where there hath been wine in and hang in it a bag with Mustard-seeds by the bung that so you may take it out when you please This being done put your Runlet into the hot Sun especially during the Dog-days which is the onely time to prepare it and your Metheglin will boil like Must after which boiling take out your Mustard-seeds and put your vessel well stopped into a Cellar If you will have it the taste of wine put to thirty measures of Hydromelâ— one measure of the juyce of hops and it will begin to boil without any heat Then fill up your vessel and presently after this ebullition you will have a very strong Metheglin To make white Metheglin of the Countoss of Dorset Take Rosemary Thyme Sweet-bryar Penyroyal Bays Water-cresses Agrimony Marsh-mallow-leaves Liver-wort Maiden-hair Betony Eye-bright Scabious the bark of the Ash-tree Eringo-roots Green-wild-Angelica Ribwort Sanicle Roman-worm-wood Tamarisk Mother-thyme Sassafras Philipendula of each of these herbs a like proportion or of as many of them as you please to put in But you must put in all but four handfuls of herbs which you must steep one night and one day in a little bowl of water being close covered the next day take another quantity of fresh water and boil the same herbs in it till the colour be very high then take another quantity of water and boil the same herbs in it until they look green and so let it boil three or four times in several waters as long as the Liquor looketh any thing green Then let it stand with these herbs in it a day and night Remember the last water you boil it in to this proportion of herbs must be â— twelve gallons of water â— and when it hath stood a day and a night with these herbs in it after the last boiling then strain the Liquor from the herbs and put as much of the finest and best honey into the Liquor as will make it bear an Egg. You must work and labour the honey and liquor together one whole day until the honey be consumed Then let it stand a whole night and then let it be well laboured again and let it stand again a clearing and so boil it again a quarter of an hour with the whites of six New laid-eggs with the shells the yolks being taken out so scum it very clean and let it stand a day a cooling Then put it into a barrel and take Cloves Mace Cinamon and Nutmegs as much as will please your taste and beat them altogether put them into a linnen bag and hang it with a thread in the barrel Take heed you put not too much spice in a little will serve Take the whites of two or three New-laid-eggs a spoonful of barm and a spoonful of Wheat-flower and beat them altogether and put it into your Liquer into the barrel and let it work before you stop it Then afterwards stop it well and close it well with clay and Salt tempered together and let it be set in a close place and when it hath been settled some six weeks draw it into bottles and stop it very close and drink it not a month after but it will keep well half a year and more Another to make white Metheglin Take ten Gallons of water than take six handfuls of Sweet-bryar as much of Sweet-marjoram and as much of Muscovy Three handfuls of the best Broad-thyme Boil these together half an hour then strain them Then take two Gallons of English-honey and dissolve it in this hot Liquor and brew it well together then set it over the fire to boil again and skim it very clean then take the whites of thirty Eggs wel beaten and put them into the Liquor let it boil an hour then strain it through a jelly bag and let it stand 24 hours cooling then put it up in a vessel Then take six Nutmegs six fair Races of Ginger a quarter of an Ounce of Cloves half an Ounce of Cinamon bruise all these together and put them into a linnen-bag with a little Pebble-stone to make it sink Then hang it in the vessel Yoy may adde to it if you please two grains of Amber-greece and one grain of Musk. Stop the vessel with a Cork but not too close for six days then taste it and if it taste enough of the Spice then take out the bag if not let the bag hang in it and stop it very close and meddle with it no more It will be ready to drink in nine or ten weeks A Receipt to make good Meath Take as many Gallons of water as you intend to make of Meath and to every Gallon put a quart of honey and let it boil till it bear an Egg. To every Gallon you allow the white of an Egg which white you must remove and break with your hands and put into the Kettle before you put it over the fire Before it boileth
pints of hot water in which you have dissolved three spoonfuls of the purest and newest Ale-yest Stop it very close till it ferment then give such vent as is necessary and keep it warm for about three days it will work and ferment Taste it after two days to see if it be grown to your liking As soon as you find it so let it run through a strainer to leave behind all the exhausted currants and the yest and so bottle it up It will be exceeding quick and pleasant and is admirable good to cool the Liver and cleanse the blood It will be ready to drink in five or six days after it is bottled And you may drink safely large draughts of it Scotch Ale from My Lady Holmbey The Excellent Scotch Ale is made thus Heat spring-Spring-water it must not boil but be ready to boil which you will know by leaping up in bubbles Then pour it to the Malt but by little and little stirring them strongly together all the while they are mingling When all the water is in it must be so proportioned that it be very thick Then cover the vessel well with a thick Mat made oâ— purpose with a hole for the stick and that with Coverlets and Blankets to keep in all the heat After three or four hours let it run out by the stick putting new heated water upon the Malt if you please for small Ale or Beer into a Hogshead with the head out There let it stand till it begin to blink and grow long like thin Syrup If you let it stay too long and grow too thick it will be sowre Then put it again into the Caldron and boil it an hour or an hour and a half Then put it into a Woodden-vessel to cool which will require near forty hours for a hogâ—â—head Then pour it off gently from the settlingâ— This quantity of a hogshead will requirâ— betâ—â—r then a quart of the best Ale-barm which you must put to it thus Put it to about three quarts of wort and stir it to make it work well When the barm is risen quick scum it off to put to the rest of the wort by degrees The remaining Liquor that is the three quarts will have drawn into it all the heavy dregs of the barm and you may put it to the Ale of the second running but not to this Put the barm you have scummed off which will be at least a quart to about two gallons of the wort and stir it to make that rise and work Then put two Gallons more to it Doing thus at several times till all be mingled which will require a whole day to do Cover it close and let it work till it be at it's height and begin to fall which may require ten or twelve hours or more Watch this well least it sink too much for then it will be dead Then scum off the thickest part of the barm and â—un your Ale into the hogshaed leaving all the bung open a day or two Then lay a strong Paper upon it to keep the clay from falling in that you must then lay upon it in which you must make a little hole to let it work out You must have some of the same Liquor to fill it up as it works over When it hath done working stop it up very close and keep it in a very cold Cellar It will be fit to broach after a year and be very clear and sweet and pleasant and will continue a year longer drawing and the last glass full be as pure and as quick as the first You begin to broach it high Let your Cask have served for Sweet-wine To make Ale drink quick When small Ale hath wrought sufficiently draw into bottles but first put into every bottle twelve good raisins of the Sun split and stoned Then stop up the bottle close and set it in sand gravel or a cold dry Cellar After a while this will drink exceeding quick and pleasant Likewise take six Wheat-corns and bruise them and put into a bottle of Ale it will make it exceeding quick and stronger To make Cider Take a Peck of Apples and slice them and boil them in a barrel of water till the third part be wasted Then cool your water as you do for wort and when it is cold you must pour the water upon three measures of grown Apples Then draw forth the water at a tap three or four times a day for three days together Then press out the Liquor and Tun it up when it hath done working then stop it up close A very Pleasant Drink of Apples Take about fifty Pippâ—ns quarter and core them without paring them for the paring is the Cordialest part of them Therefore onely wipe or wash them well and pick away the black excrescence at the top and be sure to leave out all the seeds which are hot You may cut them after all the superfluities are takâ—n away inâ—o thinner slices if you please Put three Gallons of Fountain water to them in a great Pipkin and let them boil till the Apples become clear and transparent which is a sign they are perfectly tender and wâ—ll be in a good half hour or a little more Then with your Ladle break them into Mash and Pulpe incorporated with the water letting all boil half an hour longer that the water may draw into it self all the vertue of the Apples Then put to them a pound and a half of pure dubble refined Sugar in powder which will soon dissolve in that hot Liquor Then pour it into an Hippocras bag and let it run through it two or three times to be very clear Then put it up into bottles and after a little time it will be a most pleasant quick cooling smoothing drink Excellent in sharp Gonorrhaeas Sir Paul Neale's way of making Cider The best Apples make the best Cider as Pearmains Pippins Golden-pippins and the like Codlings make the finest Cider of â—ll They must be ripe when you make Cider of them and is in prime in the Summer season when no other Cider is good But lasteth not long not beyond Autumn The foundation of making perfect Cyder consisteth in not having it work much scarce ever at all but at least no second time which Ordinary Cider doth often upon change of weather and upon motion and upon every working it grows harder Do then thus Choose good Apples Red streaks are the best for Cider to keep Ginet-moils the next then Pippins Let them lie about threâ— weeks after they are gathered Then stamp and strain them in the Ordinary way into a woodden fat that hath aâ—â—igot three or four fingers breadth above theâ—â—ottom Cover the fat wâ—th some hair or sack â—oth to secure it from any thing to fall in and to keep in some of the Spirits so to preserve it from dying but not so much as to make it â—erment When the juyce hath been there twelve hours draw it by the spigot the fat inclining that way
taste peradventure it were best leave them out In health you may season the potage with a little juyce of Orange In season green Pease â—re good also Cucumbers In Winter Roots Cabbage Poix-chiches Vermicelli at any time You may use yolks of Eggs beaten with some of the broth and juyce of Oranges or Verjuyce then poured upon the whole quantity Tea with Eggs. The Jesuite that came from China Ann. 1664 told Mr. Waller That there they use sometimes in this manner To near a pint of the infusion take two yolks of new laid-eggs and beat them very well with as much fine Sugar as is sufficient for this quantity of Liquor when they are very well incorporated pour your Tea upon the Eggs and Sugar and stir them well together So drink it hot This is when you come home from attending business abroad and are very hungry and yet have not conveniency to eat presently a competent meal This presently discusseth and satisfieth all rawness and indigence of the stomack flyeth suddainly over the whole body and into the veâ—ns and strengthneth exceedingly and preserves one a good while from necessity of eating Mr. Waller findeth all those effects of it thus with Eggs. In these parts He saith we let the hot water remain too long soaking upon the Tea which makes it extract into it self the earthy parts of the herb The water is to remain upon it no longer then whiles you can say the Miserere Psalm very leisurely Then pour it upon the sugar or sugar and Eggs. Thus you have only the spiritual parts of the Tea which is much more active penetrative and friendly to nature You may for this regard take a little more of the herb about one dragm of Tea will serve for a pint of water which makes three ordinary draughts Nourishing Broth. Make a very good gelly-broth of Mutton Veal joynt-bones of each a Hen and some bones with a little meat upon them of rosted Veal or Mutton breaking the bones that the marrow may boil out Put to boil with these some barley first boiled in water that you throw away some Harts-horn rasped and some stoned raisins of the Sun When the broth is throughly well boiled pour it from the Ingredients and let it cool and harden into a gelly then take from it the fat on the top and the dregs in the bottom To a porrenger full of this melted put the yolk of a new-laid egg beaten with the juyce of an Orange or less if you like it not to sharp and a little Sugar and let this stew gently a little while altogether and so drink it Some flesh of rosted Veal or Mutton or Capon besides the rosted-bones that have marrow in them doth much amend the broth The Joynts I have mentioned above are those which the Butchers cut off and throw to their dogs from the ends of shoulders legs and other bare long parts and have the sinews sticking to them Good noâ—rishing Potage Take any bones of rosted or boiled Beef from which the meat is never so clean eaten and picked as the Ribs the Chine-bones the buckler plate-bone marrow-bones or any other that you would think never so dry and insipid Break them into such convenient pieces as may lie in your pipkin or pot also you may bruise them Put with them a good piece of the bloody piece of the throat of the Beef where he is sticked and store of water to these Boil and scum them till the first foul scum is risen and taken away afterwards scum no more but let the blood boil into the broth You may put a quartered Onion or two to them if you like them After four or five hours boyling put in a good Knuckle with some of the leg of Veal and if you please a crag-end or two of necks of Mutton Let these boil very well with the rest You may put in what herbs you please in due time as Lettice Sorrel Borage and Bugloss Spinage and Endive Purslane c. and a bundle of sweet herbs In winter Cabbage or Turneps or Parsley-roots or Endive c. It will be done in two or three hours after the Veal and Mutton are in Pour out the broth and boil it a little by it self over a Chaâ—ing-dish in some deep vessel to scum off the superfluous fat Then pour it upon tosted bread by degrees if you will stewing it to gelly it to serve it in after it hath stewed a little you must remember to season it with salt Pepper and Cloves in the due time You will do well to quicken it with some Verjuyce or juyce of Orange or with some yolks of Eggs and the juyces if the broth be not over-strong Green-pease in the season do well with the Potage You may put in near the beginning some bottom of a Peppered Pasty or of a loaf of bread Wheaten Flommery In the West-country they make a kind of Flomery of wheat flower which they judge to be more harty and pleasant then that of Oatmeal Thus Take half or a quarter of a bushel of good Bran of the best wheat which containeth the purest flower of it though little and is used to make starch and in a great woodden bowl or pail let it soak with cold water upon it three or four days Then strain out the milky water from it and boil it up to a gelly or like starch Which you may season with Sugar and Rose or orange-flower-Orange-flower-water and let it stand till it be cold and gellied Then eat it with white or rhenish-Rhenish-wine or Cream or Milk or Ale Pap of Oat-meal Beat Oat-meal small put a little of it to milk and let it boil stewingly till you see that the milk begins to thicken with it Then strain the milk from the Oat-meal this is as when you soak or boil out the substance of Oatmeal with water to make Flomery then boil up that milk to the height of Pap which sweeten with a little Sugar and put to it some yolks of Eggs dissolved in Rose or Orange-Flower-water and let it mittonner a while upon the Chaâ—ing-dish and a little Butter if you like it You may boil a little Mace in the Milk Panado Beat a couple of New-laid-eggs in good clear broth heat this a little stirring it all the while Then pour this upon a Panado made thick of same broth and keep them a little upon a Chasing-dish to incorporate stirring them all the while Barley Pap. Boil Barley in water usque ad Putriâ—aginem with a â—lake or two of Mace or a quartered Nutmeg and when it is in a manner dissolved in water with long boiling strain out all the Cream or Pap leaving the â—usks behind At the same time beat for one mess two Ounces of blanched Almonds with Rose-water and when they are throughly beaten strain out their milk or you may put this to the Barley before it is strained and strain them together and put it to the Barley Pap and let them stew a while
together then sweeten it with Sugar to your taste Or when you have boiled the Barley in water very tender as above you may put Milk to it and boil again to fittinâ— thickness Then strain it adding Almonâ—s as above Or if you will and your stomack will bear it you may eat it without straining the barley but the Almonds must be strained and you may put Butter to it if you please You may do the like with Oat-meal or Rice or put Pine-Keâ—nels first well watered with the Almonds Oat-meal Pap. Sir John Colladon Put beaten Oat-meal to soak an hour or two in milk as you do in water when you make Flomery Then strain it out into a Possnet through a sitting strainer and if you judge it too thick of the Oat-meal for sufficient boiling add more milk to it Set this to boil putting then into it a lump of Sugar about as big as a little Wall nut and stir it well all the while that it burn not too About an hours boiling is sufficient by which time it should be grown pretty thick Put then a good lump of fresh-butter to it which being well melted and stirred into the Pap and incorporated with it take it from the fire and put it into a dish and strew some fine sugar upon it or mingle some sugar with it to sweeten the whole quantity You may season it also with Rose-water or Orange flower-water or Ambergreece or some Yolks of New-laid-eggs You may put in a very little Salt at the fiâ—st Rice Orge mondé Boil a quart of Milk in a large Pipkin as soon as it boileth take it from the fire and instantly put into it five or six good spoonfuls of picked Rice and cover it close and so let it stand soaking in the Chimney-corner two hours Then set in on the fire again to make it stew or boil simpringly for an hour or an hour and half more till it be enough Then put sugar to it and so serve it in Orge mondé is done in the same manner only you let that stand covered and warm all the while during three four or five hours and then you boil it simpringly three or four hours more The quantity must be more or less as you desire it thicker or thinner which after once tryal you will easily know how to proportion out The chief care must be that the Rice or Barley be well homogeneated with the Milk Smallage Gruel In a Marble mortar beat great Oat-meal to meal which requireth long beating then boil it three or four hours in Spring-water To a possnet full of two or three quarts of water put about half a Porrenger full of Oat-meal before it is beaten for after beating it appeareth more To this quantity put as much Smallage as you buy for a peny which maketh it strong of the Herb and very green Chop the smallage exceeding small and put it in a good half hour before you are to take your possnet from the fire You are to season your Gruel with a little salt at the due time and you may put in a little Nutmeg and Mace to it When you have taken it from the fire put into it a good proportion of butter which stir well to incorporate with the Gruel when it is melted About water Gruel When you set to the fire a big pot of Oatmeal which must be but once cut that is every corn cut once a two and water to make water-gruel Let it boil long till it be almost boiled enough then make it rise in a great ebullition in great galloping waves and skim off all the top that riseth which may be a third part of the whole and is the Cream and hath no gross-visible Oat-meal in it Boil that a while longer by it self with a little Mace and Nutmeg and season it with Salt When it is enough take it off and put Sugar Butter and a little red-rose-Red-rose-water to it and an Egg with a little white-White-wine if you like it and would have it more nourishing This is by much better then the part which remaineth below with the body of the Oat-meal Yet that will make good Water-gruel for the Servants If you boil it more leisurely you must skim off the Cream as it riseth in boiling else it will quickly sink down again to the rest of the gross Oat-meal And thus you may have a finer Cream then with hasty boiling An Excellent and wholesome Water-gruel With Wood-sorrel and Currants Into a Possnet of two quarts of water besides the due proportion of beaten Oat-meal put two handfuls of Wood sorrel a little-chopped and bruised and a good quantity of picked and washed Currants tyed loosly in a thin stuff bag as a bolter cloth Boil these very well together seasoning the Composition in due time with Salt Nutmeg Mace or what else you please as Rosemary c. when it is sufficiently boiled strain the Oat-meal and press out all the juyce and humidity of the Currants and Herbs throwing away the insipid husks and season it with Sugar and Butter and to each Porrenger-ful two spoonfuls of Rhenish-wine and the yolk of an Egg. The Queens Barley-Cream You must make a good barley-water throwing away the three first waters as soon as they boil which will take up about three quarters of an hour Then you boil a large quantity of water with the Barley which thus prepared makes the water no more Red or Russet during an hours space or more that it may be strong of the Barley perle-Barley is best towards the latter end put in the Pullet slead and the legs cut off If it should boil too long the emulsion would taste too fleshy When it is enough let the broth run clear from the Barley and pullet and beat the Almonds with the broth and strain them from it Then sweeten it with Sugar This is to make at least two English quarts of Emulsion I should like to put some pulp of Barley boiled by it self to strain with the Almond-Milk and if you will some Melon seeds You may put some juyce of Limon or Orange to it Also season it with Cinnamon and make the broth stronger of the flesh The Queens white Potage is made only of the white flesh of Capon beaten with good broth and strained and a little juyce of Limon or Orange but no Almonds Pressis Nourissant The Queen Mothers Pressis was thus made Take un Gigot of Mutton a piece of Veal and a Capon or half the quantity of each of these and put them to rost with convenient fire till they are above half rosted or rather till they be two thirds rosted Then take them off and squeese out all their juyce in a press with screws and scum all the fat from it and put it between two dishes upon a Chafing dish of Coals to boil a very little or rather but to heat well for by then it is through hot the juyce will be ripened enough to drink whereas before it was raw
of waâ—er or till you find by touching the Bladder thâ—t the Capon is tender and boiled enough Tâ—en serve it up in a dish in the Blâ—dder dry wâ—ped which when you cut you will find a preâ—ious and nouâ—ishing liquor to eat with bread and the Capon will be short tender most savoury and full of juyce and very nourishing I conceive that if you put enough Ox-marrow you need no butter and that it may do well to add Ambergreece Dates-sliced and pithed Raisins Currants and a little Sugar Peradventure this might be done well in a Silver-flagon close luted set in Balneo bulliente as I make the nourishing broth or gelly of Mutton or Chickens c. An Excellent Baked Pudding Slice thin two peny-roles or one of French-bread the tender part Lay it in a dish or pan Pour upon it a quart of Cream that hath been well boiled Let it stand almost half an hour till it be almost cold Then stir the bread and Cream very well together till the bread be well broken and Incorporated If you have no French bread take stale Kingston bread grated add to this two spoonfuls of fine Wheat-flower the yolks of four Eggs and the whites of two a Nutmegâ—grated small Sugar to your tast a little Salt and the Marrow of two bonâ—s a little shreded Stir all these together then pour it into a dish greased over with Butter and set it uncovered in the Oven to bake About half an hour will serve and give the top a yellow crispiness Before you put in the Marrow put in a quarter of a pound and a half of Raisins of the Sun and as much of Currants Ordering them so thâ—â— they may not fall to the bottom but be all about the pudding My Lady of Portland's Minced Pyes Take four pounds of Beef Veal or Neats-Tongues and eight pounds of Suet and mince both the meat and Suet very small befor you put them together Then mingle them well together and mince it very small and put to it six pounâ—s of Currants washed and picked very clean Then take the Peel of two Limons and half a score of Pippins and mince them very small Then take above an Ounce of Nutmegs and a quarter of an Ounce of Mace some Cloves and Cinnamon and put them together and sweeten them with Rose-water and Sugar And when you are ready to put them into your Paste take Citron and Orangiadoe and slice them very thin and lay them upon the meat If you please put dates upon the top of them And put amongst the meat an Ounce of Caraway-seeds Be sure you have very fine Paste My Lady of Portland told me since that she finds Neats-tongues to be the best flesh for Pâ—es Parboil them first For the proportion of the Ingredients she likes best to take equal parts of flesh of suet of currants and of Raisins of the Sun The other things in proportion as is said above You may either put the Raisins in whole or stone the greatest part and Mince them with the Meat Keep some whole ones to lay a bed of them at the top of the Pye when all is in You will do well to stick the Candid Orange-peel and green Citron-peel into the meat You may put a little Sack or Greek Muscadine into each Pye A little Amber-sugar doth well here A pound of flesh and proportionably of all things else is enough for once in a large family Another way of making excellent Minced Pyes of My Lady Portlands Parboil Neats-tongues Then Peel and hash them with as much as they weigh of Beef-suet and stoned Raisins and picked Currants Chop all exceeding small that it be like Pap. Employ therein at least an hour more then ordinarily is used Then mingle a very little Sugar with them and a little wine and thrust in up and down some thin slices of green Candyed Citron-peel And put this into coffins of fine light well reared crust Half an hour baking will be enough If you strew a few Carvi comfits on the top it will not be amiss Minced Pyes My Lady Lâ—sson makes her finest minced Pyes of Neats-tongues But she holdeth the most savoury ones to be of Veal and Mutton equal parts very small minced Her finest crust is made by sprinkling the flower as much as it needeth with cold water and then working the past with little pieces of raw Butter in good quantity So that she useth neither hot water nor melted butter in them And this makes the crust short and light After all the meat and seasoning and Plums and Citron Peel c. is in the Coffin she puts a little Ambered-sugar upon it thus Grind much two grains of Ambergreece and half a one of Musk with a little piece of hard loaf-Sugar This will serve six or eight pyes strewed all over the top Then cover it with the Liddle and set it in the Oven To Rost fine Meat When the Capon Chickens or Fowl have been long enough before the fire to be through hot and that it is time to begin to baste them baste them once all over very well with fresh Butter then presently powder it all over very thin with Flower This by continuing turning before the fire will make a thin crust which will keep in all the juyce of the meat Therefore baste no more nor do any thing to it till the meat be enough rosted Then baste it well with Butter as before which will make the crust relent and fall away which being done and that the meat is growing brown on the Out-side besprinkle it over with a little ordinary white Salt in gross-grains and continue turning till the outside be brown enough The Queen useth to baste such meat with yolks of fresh-Eggs beaten thin which continue to do all the while it is rosting Savoury Collops of Veal Cut a Leg of Veal into thin Collops and beat them well with the back of a Knife Then lay them in soak a good half hour in the yolks of four Eggs and the whites of two very well beaten and a little small shreded Thyme mingled with it then lay them in the Frying-pan wherein is boiling Butter and pour upon them the rest of the Eggs that the Collops have not Imbibed and carry with them and fry them very well turning them in due time Then pour away all the Butter and make them a Sauce of Gravy seasoned with Salt and Spice and juyce of Orange at last squeesed upon them A Fricacee of Lamb-stones or Sweet-breads or Chicken or Veal or Mutton Boil the meat in little pieces if Chicken flead and beaten in the Pan with a pint of fair-fair-water with due seasoning When it is very tender put some Butter to it and pour upon it a Liquor made of four yolks of Eggs beaten with a little white wine and some Verjuyce and keep this in motion over the fire till it be sufficiently thickened Then pour it into a warm dish and squeese some juyce of Orange upon it
the thing close that it is in and let it steep twenty four hours To this two quarts of Oat-meal put a pint and half of blood season it well with Salt and a little Pepper and a little beaten Cloves and Mace eight Eggs yolks and whites five pound of Kidney-beef-suet shred but not too small then put in of these herbs Peny-royal Fennel Leek-blades Parsley Sage Straw-berrâ—-leaves and Violet-leaves equal parts in all to the quantity of a good handful let them be pick'd and washed very clean and chop'â— very small and mingled well with the former things Then fill your Puddings Make ready your guts in this manner Cleanse them very well when they are fresh taken out of the Hog and after they are well washed and scowred lay them to soak in fair water three days and three nights shifting the water twice every day and every time you shift the water scour them first with Sater and Salt An hour and a quarter is enough to boil them To preserve Pippins in Ielly either in quarters or in slices Take good sound clear Pippins pare quarter and coar them then put them into a skillet of Conduit-water such a proportion as you intend to make boil it very well then let the liquor run from the pulp through a sieve without forcing and let it stand till the next morning Take Orange or Limon peel and boil in a skillet of water till they are tender then rowl them up in a linnen cloth to dry the water well out of them let them lie so all night Then take of double refined and finely beaten and searced Sugar a pound to every pint of Pippin Liquor that ran through the sieve and to every pound of Sugar and pint of liquor put ten Ounces of Pippins in quarters or in slices but cut them not too thin boil them a little while very fast in the Pippin-liquor before you put in the Sugar then strew in the Sugar all over them as it boileth till it is all in keeping it still fast boiling until they look very clear by that you may know they are enough While they boil you must still be scumming them then put in your juyce of Limon to your last and Amber if you please and after let it boil half a dozen walms but no more Then take it from the fire and have ready some very thin Brown-paper and clap a single sheet close upon it and if any scum remain it will stick to the Paper Then put your quarters or slices into your Glasses and strew upon them very small slices of Limon or Orange which you please which you had before boiled then fill up your Galsses with your jelly For making your Pippin-liquor you may take about some fourty Pippins to two quarts of water or so much as to make your Pippin-liquor strong of the Pippins and the juyce of about four Limons My Lady Diana Porteâ—'s Scotch Collops Cut a leg or two of Mutton into thin slices which beat very well Put them to fry over a very quick fire in a pan first glased over with no more Butter melted in it then just to besmear a little all the bottom of the Pan. Turn them in due time There must never be but one row in the pan not any slice lying upon another but every one immediate to the pan When they are fryed enough lay them in a hot dish covered over a Chafing dish and pour upon them the Gravy that run out of them into the Pan. Then lay another row of slices in the Pan to fry as before and when they are enough put them into the dish to the other When you have enough by such repetitions or by doing them in two or three pans all at a time take a Porrenger full of Gravy of Mutton and put into it a piece of Butter as much a Wall-nuâ— and a quartered Onion if you will or rub the dish afterwards with Garlike and Pepper and Salt and let this boil to be very hot then throw away the Onion and pour this into the dish upon the slices and let them stew a little together then squeese an Orange upon it and serve it up A Fricacee of Veal Cut a leg of Veal into thin slices and beat them or the like with Châ—cken which must be flead off their skin Put about half a pint of water or flesh-broth to them in a frying-pan and some Thyme and Sweet-marjoram and an Onion or â—wo quartered and boil them till they be tender having seasoned them with Salâ— and about twenty Corns of whole white Pepper and four or five Cloves When they are enough take half a piâ—t of White wine four yolks of Eggs a quarrter of a pound of butter or more a good spoonful of Thyme Sweet-Marjoram and Parsley more Parsley then of the others all minced small a Porrenger full of gravy When all these are well incorporated together over the fire and well beaten pour it into the pan to the rest and turn it continually up and down over the fire till all be well incorporated Then throw away the Onion and first sprigs of Herbs squeese Orange to it and so serve it up hot If instead of a Fricaceé you will make un estuveé de veau stew or boil simpringly your slices of Veal in White-wine and water anâ— with a good lump of Butter seasoning it with Pepper and Salt and Onions When it is enough put to it store of yolks of Eggs beaten with Verjuyce or white-White-wine and Vinegar and some Nutmeg and gravy if you will and some Herbs as in the Fricaceé and stir all very well over the fire till the sauce be well lié together A Tansy Take three pints of Cream fourteen New-laid-eggs seven whites put away one pint of juyce of Spinage six or seven spoonfuls of juyce of Tansy a Nutmeg or two sliced small half a pound of Sugar and a little Salt Beat all these well together then fry it in a pan with no more Butter then is necessary When it is enough serve it up with juyce of Orange or slices of Limon upon it To Stew Oysters Take what quantity you will of the best Oysters to eat raw Open them putting all their water with the fish into a bason Take out the Oysters one by one that you may have them washed clean in their own water and lay them in the dish you intend to stew them in Then let their water run upon them through a fine linnen that all their foulness may remain behind Then put a good great lump of Butter to them which may be when melted half as much as their water Season them with Salt Nutmeg and a very few Cloves Let this boil smartly covered When it is half boiled put in some crusts of light French-bread and boil on till all be enough and then seâ—ve them up You may put in three or four grains of Ambergreece when you put in the Nutmeg that in the boiling it may melt You may also put
about half an hour Then take it from the fire and let it cool When the pickle is quite cold and the Mushrooms also quite cold and drained from all moisture put them into the Liquor with all the Ingredients in it which you must be sure be enough to cover them In ten or twelve days they will have taken into them the full taste of the pickle and will keep very good half a year If you have much supernatant Liquor you may parboil more Mushroms next day and put them to the first If you have not gathered at once enough for a dressing you may keep them all night in water to preserve them white and gather more the next day to joyn to them To stew Wardens or Pears Pare them put them into a Pipkin with so much Red or claret-Claret-Wine and water ana as willâ—near reach to the top of the Pears Stew or boil gently till they grow tender which may be in two hours After a while put in some sticks of Cinnamon bruised and a few Cloves When they are almost done put in Sugar enough to season them well and their Syrup which you pour out upon them in a deeâ— Plate To stew Apples Pare them and cut them into slices stew them with Wine and Water as the Pears and season them in like manner with Spice Towards the end sweeten them with Sugar breaking the Apples into Pap by stirring them When you are ready to take them off put in good store of fresh-butter and incorporate it well with them by stirring them together You stew these between two dishes The quickest Apples are the best Portuguez Eggs. The way that the Countess de Penalva makes the Portuguez Eggs for the Queen is this Take the yolks clean picked from the whites and germ of twelve new-laid Eggs. Beat them exceedingly with a little scarce a spoonful of Orange-flower-water When they are exceeding liquid clear and uniformly a thin Liquor put to them one pound of pure double refined Sugar if it be not so pure it must be clarified before and stew them in your dish or bason over a very gentle fire stirring them continually whiles they are over it so that the whole may become one uniform substance of the consistence of an Electuary beware they grow not too hard for without much caution and attention that will happen on a sudden which then you may â—at presently or put into pots to keep You may dissolve Ambergreece if you will ground first very much with Sugar in Orange-flower or Rose-water before hand and put it warm and dissolved to the Eggs when you set them to stew If you clarifie your Sugar do it with one of these waters and whites of Eggs. The flavor of tâ—ese sweet-waters goeth almost all away with boiling Therefore half a spoonful put into the composition when you take it from the fire seasoneth it more then ten times as much put in at the first To boil Eggs. A certain and infallible method to boil new-laid Eygs to sup up and yet that they have the white turned to milk is thus Break a very little hole at the bigger end of the shell and put it into the water whilâ—s it boileth Let it remain boiling whiles your Pulse beateth two hundred stroaks Then take it out immediately and you will find it of an exact temper others put Eggs into boyling water just as you take it from the fire and let them remain there till the water be so cooled that you may just put in your hand and take out the Eggs. Others put the Eggs into cold water which they set upon the fire and as soon as the water begins to boil the Eggs are enough To make clear Gelly of Bran. Take two pound of the broadest open Bran of the best Wheat and put it to infuse in a Gâ—llon of Water during two or three days that the water may soak into the pure flower that sticks to the bran Then boil it three or four walms and presently take it from the fire and strain it through some fine strainer A milky substance will come out which let stand to settle about half a day Pour off the clear water that swimmeth over the starch or flomery that is in the bottom which is very good for Pap c. and boil it up to a gelly as you do Harts-horn gelly or the like and season it to your taste To bake Venison Boil the bones well broken and remaining flesh of the Venison from whence the meat of the Pasty is cut in the Liquor wherein Capons and Veal or Mutton have been boiled so to make very strong broth of them The bones must be broken that you may have the Marrow of them in the Liquor and they must stew a long time covering the pot close that you may make the broth as strong as you can and if you put some gravy of Mutton or Veal to it it will be the better When the Pasty is half baked pour some of this broth into it by the hole at the top and the rest of it when it is quite baked and wanteth but standing in the oven to soak Or put it all in at once when the Pasty is sufficiently baked and afterwards let it remain in the oven a good while soaking You may bake the bones broken with the broth and gravy or for want thereof with only water in an earthen pot close stopped till you have all the substance in the Liquor which you may pour into the Pasty an hour before it is baked enough If you are in a Park you may soak the Venison a night in the blood of the Deer and cover the flesh with it clotted together when you put it in paste Mutton blood also upon Venison is very good You may season your blood a little with Pepper and Salt To bake Venison to keep After you have boned it cut away all the siâ—ews then season it with Pepper and Salt pretty high and divide a Stag into four pots then put about a pound of Butter upon the top of each pot and cover it with Rye-past pretty thick Your oven must be so hot that after a whole night it may be baked very tender which is a great help to the keeping of it And when you draw it drain all the Liquor from it and turn your pot upon a pie-plate with the bottom upwards and so let it stand until it is cold Then wipe your pot that no gâ—avy remain therein and then put your Venison into the same pot again them have your Butter very well clarified that there be no dross remaining Then fill up your pot about two Inches above the meat with Butter or else it will mould And so the next day binde it up very close with a piece of sheeps Leather so that no air can get in After which you may keep it as long as you please Master Adrian May put 's up His Venison in pots to keep long thus Immediatly as soon as He hath
the whites of Eggs not above half a spoonful of that Oyl of Eggs to a Porrenger full of thick Pap beaten exceeding well with it and a little juyce of Limons Lay this smooth upon the Cakes with a Knife and smoothen it with a feather Then set the pan over them to dry them Which being if there be any unevenness or cracks or discolouring lay on a little more of that Mortar and dry it as before Repeat this till it be as clear and smooth and white as you would have it Then turn the other sides and do the like to them You must take care not to scorch them for then they would look yellow or red and they must be pure white and smooth like Silver between polished and matte or like a looking Glass This Coat preserves the substance of the Cakes within the longer moist You may beat dissolved Amber or Essence of Cinnamon with them To make Slipp coat Cheese According to the bigness of your moulds proportion your stroakings for your Cheese-curds To six quarts of stroakings take a pint of Spring-water if the weather be hot then let the water be cold and before you put it into the stroakings let them stand a while to cool after they are milked and then put in the water with a little Salt first stirred in it and having stirred it well together let it stand a little while and then put in about two good spoonfuls of Runner stir it well together and cover it with a fair linnen-cloth and when it is become hard like a thiâ—k jelly with a skimming-dish lay it gently into the moulds and as it sinks down into the moulds fill it still up again till all be in which will require some three or four hours time Then lay a clean fine cloth into another mould of the same cise and turn it into it and then turn the skirts of the cloth over it and lay upon that a thin board and upon that as much weighâ— as with the board may make two pound or thereabouts And about an hour after lay another clean cloth into the other mould and turn the Cheese into that then lay upon the board so much as will make it six or seven pound weight and thus continue turning of it till night then take away the weight and lay it no more on it then take a very small quantity of Salt finely beaten and sprinkle the Cheese all over with it as slightly as can be imagined Next morning turn it into another dry cloth and let it lye out of the mould upon a plain board and change it as often as it wets the cloth which must be three or four times a day when it is so dry that it wets the cloth no more lay it upon a bed of green-rushes and lay a row upon it but be sure to pick the bents clean off and lay them even all one way if you cannot get good rushes take nettles or grass If the weather is cold cover them with a linnen and woollen cloth in case you cannot get stroakings take five quarts of new Milk and one of Cream If the weather be cold heat the water that you put to the stroakings Trun the Cheese every day and put to it fresh of whatsoever you keep it in They are usually ripe in ten days To make Slipp-coat Cheese Master Philipps his Method and proportions in making slippe-coat Cheese are these Take six wine quarts of stroakings and two quarts of Cream mingle these well together and let them stand in a bowl till they aâ—e cold Then power upon them three pints of boiling fair water and mingle them well together then let them stand till they are almost cold colder then milk-warm Then put to it a moderate quantity of Runnet made with fair water not whey or any other thing then water this is an important point and let it stand till it come Have a care not to break the Curds nor ever to touch them with your hands but only with your skimming dish In due time lade the Curds with the dish into a thin fine Napkin held up by two persons that the whey may run from them through the bunt of the Napkin which you rowl gently about that the Curds may dry without breaking When the whey is well drained out put the Curds as whole as you can into the Cheese-fat upon a napkin in the fat Change the Napkin and turn the Cheese every quarter of an hour and less for ten twelve or fourteen times that is still as soon as you perceive the Napkin wet with the whay running from the Curds Then press it with a half pound weight for two or three hours Then add half a pound more for as long time then another half pound for as long and lastly another half pound which is two pounds in all which weight must never be exceeded The next day when about twenty four hours are past in all sâ—lt your Cheese moderately with white Salt and then turn it but three or four times a day and keep it in a cotton cloth which will make it mellow and sweet not rank and will preserve the coat smooth It may be ready to eat in about twelve days Some lay it to ripen in dock-leaves and it is not amiss but that in rain they will be wâ—t which moulds the Cheese Others in slat â—it boxes of wood turning them as is said three or four times a day But a cotton cloth is best This quantity is for a round large Cheese of about the bigness of a sale ten peny Cheese a good fingers breadth thick Long broad grass ripeneth them well and sucketh out the moisture Rushes are good also They are hot but dry not the moisture so well My Lady of Middlesex makes excellâ—nt slipp-coat Cheese of good morning milk putting Cream to it A quart of Cream is the proportion she useth to as much milk as both together make a large round Cheese of the bigness of an ordinary Tart-plate or Cheese-plate as big as an ordinary soft cheese that the Market-women sell for ten pence Thus for want of stroakings at London you may take one part of Cream to five or six of morning milk and for the rest proceed as with stroâ—kings and these will prove as good Slipp-cort Cheese Take three quarts of the last of the stroakings of as many Cows as you have keep it covered that it may continue warm put to it a skimming dishful of Spring-water then put in two spoonfuls of Runnet so let it stand until it be hard come when it is hard come set your fat on the bottome of a hair-sieve take it up by degrees but break it not when you have laid it all in the fat take a fine cloth and lay it over the Cheese and work it in about the sides with the back of a knife then lay a board on it for half an hour after half an hour set on the board an half pound stone so let
it stand two hours then turn it on that board and let the cloth be both under and over it then put it into the fat again Then lay a pound and half weight on it Two hours after turn it again on a dry cloth and salt it then set on it two pound weight and let it stand until the next morning Then turn it out of the Cheese-fat on a dry board and so keep it with turnâ—ng on dry boards three days In case it turn abroad you must set it up with wedges when it begins to stiffen lay green grass or rushes upon it when it is stiff enough let rushes be laid both under and over it If this Cheese be rightly made and the weather good to dry it it will be ready in eight days but in case it doth not dry well you must lay on it a linnen-cloth and woollen upon it to hasten the ripening of it To make a Scalded Cheese Take six gallons of new milk put to it two quarts of the evening Cream then put to it good ruâ—â—â—t for winter Cheese let it stand till it be even well then sink it as long as you can get any whey out then put it into your fat and set it in the press and let it stand half an hour in this time turn it once When you take it out of the Press set on the fire two gallons of the same whey then put your Cheese in a big bowl break the Curd as small with your hands as you do your Cheese-cakes when your whey is scalding hot take off the scum lay your strainer over the Curd and put in your whey take a slice and stir up your Curd that it may scald all alike put in as much whey as will cover it well if you find that cold put it out and put in more to it that is hot Stir it as before then cover it with a linnen and woollen cloth then set some new whey on the fire put in your Cheese-fat and suter and cloth After three quarters of an hour take up the Curd and put it into the Cheese fat as fast as two can work it in then put it into the hot cloth and set it into the Press Have a care to look to it and after a while turn it and so keep it in the press with turning till the next day then take it forth and Salt it The Cream-Courds Strain your Whey and set it on the fire make a clear and gentle fire under the kettle as they rise put in whey so continuing till they are ready to skim Then take your skimmer and put them on the bottom of a hair-sieve so let them drain till they are cold Then take them off and put them into a bason and beat them with three or four spoonfuls of Cream and Sugar Savoury tosted or melted Cheese Cut pieces of quick fat rich well tasted cheese as the best of Brye Cheshire c. or sharp thick Cream-Cheese into a dish of thick beaten melted Butter that hath served for Sparages or the like or pease or other boiled Sallet or ragout of meat or gravy of Mutton and if you will Chop some of the Asparages among it or slices of Gambon of Bacon or fresh-collops or Onions or Sibboulets or Anchovis and set all this to melt upon a Chaâ—ingdish of Coals and stir all well together to Incorporate them and when all is of an equal consistence strew some gross White-Pepper on it and eat it with tosts or crusts of White-bread You may scorch it at the top with a hot Fire-Shovel To feed Chicken First give them for two days paste made of Barley Meal and Milk with Clyster 〈◊〉 to scowre them Then feed them with nothing but hashed Raisins of the Sun The less drink they have the better it is for it washeth away their fat but that little they have let it be broken Beer Milk were as good or better but then you must be careful to have it always sweet in their trough and no sowerness there to turn the Milk They will be prodigiously fat in about twelve days And you must kill them when they are at their heâ—ght Else they will soon fall back and grow fat no more Others make their Paste of Barley meal with Milk and a little course Sugar and mingle with it a little about an eight part of powder of green Glass beaten exceeding small Give this only for two days to cleanse their stomacks Then feed them with paste of Barley-meal made sometimes with Milk and Sugar and sometimes with the fat skimmed off from the pot giving them drink as above Others make a pretty stiff paste for them with Barley-meal a little of the coursest bran sifted from it and the fat scummed off from the boiling pot be it of Beef even salted or Mutton c. Lay this before them for their food for four days Then give them still the same but mingled with a little powder of Glass for 4 or five days more In which time they will be extremely fat and good For their drink give them the droppings of good Ale or good Beer When you eat them you will find some of the powder of glass in their stomacks i. e. gizzards To feed Poultry My Lady Fanshaws way of feeding Capons Pullets Hens Chicken or Turkies is thus Have Coops wherein every fowl is a part and not room to turn in and means to cleanse daily the ordure behind them and two troughs for before that one may be scalding and drying the day the other is used and before every fowl one partition for meat another for drink All their Meat is this Boil Barley in water till it be tender keep some so and another parcel of it boil with Milk and another with strong Ale Let them be boiled as wheat that is cried Use them different days for variety to get the fowl appetite Lay it in their trough with some Brown-Sugar mingled with it In the partition for Liquor let them have water or strong Ale to drink They will be very drunk and sleep then eat again Let a Candle stand all night over the Coop and then they will eat much of the night With this course they will be prodigiously fat in a fortnight Be sure to keep them very sweet This maketh the taste pure Another way of feeding Chicken Take Barley meal and with droppings of small Ale or Ale it self make it into a consistence of batter for Pan-cakes Let this be all their food Which put into the troughs before them renewing it thrice a day morning noon and evening making their troughs very clean every time and keeping their Coops always very clean and sweet This is to serve them for drink as well as meat and no other drink be given them Feed them thus six days the seventh give them nothing in their troughs but powder of brick searced which scowreth and cleanseth them much and makes their flesh exceeding white The next day fall to their
the consistence of Marmulate like that of Cherries which put in pots when it is cool enough You do not stone the whole Currants put into the juyce unless you please Sucket of Mallow Stalks To candy or preserve the tender stalks of Mallows do thus Take them in the spring when they are very young and tender and peel off the strings that are round about the outside as you do French-beans and boil them till they are very tender In the mean time prepare a high Syrup of pure Sugar and put the boiled stalkes into it whiles it is boiling hot but taken from the fire Let them lie soaking there till the next morning Then take out the stalks and heat the Syrup agâ—in scalding hot and return the stalks into it letting them lie there till next morning Note that the stalks must never boil in the Syrup Repeat this six or eight or nine times that is to say till they are sufficiently Imbibed with the Syrup When they are at this pass you may either keep them as a wet sucket in Syrup or dry them in a stove upon Papers turning them continually in such sort as dried sweet-meats are to be made I like them best dry but soft and moist within Medullâ—si like Candied Eryngos In Italy they eat much of them for sharpness and heat of Uâ—ine and in Gonorrhaea's to take away pain in Urinâ—ng A Sucket is made in like manner of the Carneous substance of stalks of Lettice It is the knob out of which the Lettice groweth which being pared and all the tough rind being taken off is very tender and so it is a pretty way downwards the root This also is very cooling and smoothing In Italy these tender stalks of Mallows are called Mazzocchi and they eat them boiled tender in Sallets either hot or cold with Vinegar and Oyl or Butter and Vinegar or juyce of Oranges Conserve of Red Roses Doctor Glisson makes his conserve of red Roses thus Boil gently a pound of red Rose leaves well picked and the Nails cut off in about a pint and a half or a little more as by discretion you shall judge fit after having done it once The Doctors Apothecary takes two pints of Spring water till the water have drawn out all the Tincture of the Roses into it self and that the leaves be very tender and look pale like Linnen which may be in a good half hour or an hour keeping the pot covered whiles it boileth Then pour the tincted Liquor from the pale Leaves strain it out pressing it gently so that you may have Liquor enough to dissolve your Sugar and set it upon the fire by it self to boil putting into it a pound of pure double refined Sugar in smâ—ll Powder which as soon as it is dissolved put in a second pound then a third lastly a fourth so that you have four pound of Sugar to every pound of Rose-leaves The Apothecary useth to put all the four pounds into the Liquor altogether at once Boil these four pounds of Sugar with the tincted Liquor till it be a high Syrup very near a candy height as high as it can be not to flake or candy Then put the pale Rose-leaves into this high Syrup as it yet standeth upon the fire or immediately upon the taking it off the fire But presently take it from the fire and stir them exceeding well together to mix them uniformly then let them stand till they be cold then pot them up If you put up your Conserve into pots whiles it is yet throughly warm and leave them uncovered some days putting them in the hot Sun or stove there will grow a fine candy upon the top which will preserve the conserve without paper upon it from moulding till you break the Candied crust to take out some of the conserve The colour both of the Rose-leaves and the Syrup about them will be exceeding beautiful and red and the taste excellent and the whole very tender and smoothing and easie to digest in the stomack without clogging it as doth the ordinary rough conserve made of raw Roses beaten with Sugar which is very rough in the throat The worst of it is that if you put not a Paper to lie always close upon the top of the conserve it will be apt to grow mouldy there on the top especially aprés que le pot est entamé The Conserve of Roses besides being good for Colds and Coughs and for the Lunges is exceeding good for sharpness and heat of Urine and soreness of the bladder eaten much by it self or drunk with Milk or distilled water of Mallows and Plantaine or of Milk Another Conserve of Roses Doctor Bacon related to me that Mr. Minito The Roman Apothecary made him some conserve of Roses in thâ—s manner He took twelve pounds of sixteen Ounces to the pound of the best lump or kitchin Sugar and clarified it very well with whites of Eggs using Spring-water in doing this He made his reckoning that his twelve pound of Sugar came to be but nine pound when all the scum was taken away and the Sugar perfectly clarified Boil it then to a Syrup and when it is about half boiled go roundly about your Rose-leaves They must be picked and the white nails cut off before-hand but begin not to beat them before your Syrup is half boiled Then put thirty Ounces which is two pound and an half of Roses to every pound of such Sugar of your Red-Roses into the Mortar and beat them well squeesing into them as you beat them some of the subtilest and best part which comes out first of about two Limons which brings out their colour finely You must have finished beating your Roses by then the Sugar is come by boiling to a high Syrup for if you should let them lie stâ—ll in the Air but a little while they would grow black and of ill colour then with your ladle put the Roses to the Sugar and stir them very well in it to Incorporate all well and uniformly together So let them boil on gently for all thiâ— while you take not your preserving pan from the fire and a thick scum of the Roses will rise which you scum off from time to time continually as it comes up and reserve this in a pot by it self for it will be good hard Sugar of Roses and may be about an eight or ninth part of the whole After it is clear from scum and hath boiled near a quarter of an hour with the Roses in it and that you see by a drop upon a plate that it is of a due consistence take your pan from the fire and stir all very well together and pâ—t it into pots which leave uncovered during ten or twelve days setting them in the hot strong Sun all the day long during that time to give the Roses a fine hard crust or candy at the top but under it in the substance of the matter it will be like a fine clear Syrupy gelly If the Sun