My Lord Hollis Hydromel

Ingredients

• In four parts of Springwater
• one part of honey
• a small proportion of Ginger sliced
• a tost of white bread with mustard

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve honey in springwater, boil and skim.

2. 2

   Add ginger, boil, and hang the rest in the bung.

3. 3

   Optionally add rosemary and sweet-briar leaves.

4. 4

   Let it work naturally and drink after a year.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened (1910) by Sir Kenelm Digby, page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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 propor- 34 SIR KENELMS DIGBIS tion 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

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