To Make Metheglin

Ingredients

• every Gallon of Honey
• three Gallons of water
• an Egg
• Sweet-bryar
• Bays
• Rosemary
• Thyme
• Marjoram
• Savoury
• the whites of two or three Eggs

Method

1. 1

   Combine honey and water over gentle heat, test with an egg.

2. 2

   If it sinks, add more honey.

3. 3

   Boil with herbs for half an hour, skim, cool, add barm, let work, then bottle.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened (1910) by Sir Kenelm Digby, page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TO MAKE METHEGLIN Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them together and set them over so gentle 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 tye up all together in a bundle. This Proportion of Herbs will be suffi- cient for twelve Gallons of Metheglin ; and accord- ing 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, skiming of it very clean and clarifying it with the whites of two or three Eggs

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