To Make White Meathe

Ingredients

• six Gallons of water
• six quarts of Honey
• a quarter of an Ounce of Mace
• so much Ginger
• half an Ounce of Nutmegs
• a handful of Sweet-marjoram
• a handful of Broad-thyme
• a handful of Sweet-Bryar

Method

1. 1

   Stir honey into water until melted, bring to boil and skim.

2. 2

   Add mace, ginger, nutmegs, and herbs.

3. 3

   Boil well, cool, barrel it up, and keep until ripe.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened (1910) by Sir Kenelm Digby, page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TO MAKE WHITE MEATHE 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 Sweet-marjoram

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