Excellent Metheglin

Ingredients

• Spring-water
• a handful of them all
• the whites of twenty or thirty Eggs
• one pint of Aquavita
• a quarter of a pound of Ginger

Method

1. 1

   Boil the water with the herbs for three to four hours.

2. 2

   Cool, mix with honey until it bears an egg, then boil.

3. 3

   Add beaten egg whites, scum, cool, and add yeast.

4. 4

   Daily scum until done working, then tun up with aquavita and ginger.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened (1910) by Sir Kenelm Digby, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

EXCELLENT METHEGLIN Take Spring-water, and boil it with Rose-mary, Sage, Sweet-Marjoram, Balm and Sassafras, 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. 72 SIR KENELME DIGBIS 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 spoon- fuls 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 Aquavita, or a quart of Sack ; and a quarter of a pound of Ginger

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.