To Make White Metheglin

Ingredients

• three Gallons of Spring-water
• one of honey
• the whites of two or three Eggs

Method

1. 1

   Melt honey in water, boil for an hour, skim, then cool and add ale yeast.

2. 2

   Bottle with limon peel and spices.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened (1910) by Sir Kenelm Digby, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TO MAKE WHITE METHEGLIN PuTto three Gallons of Spring- water, one of honey. First let it gently melt ; then boil for an hour, con- tinually skiming it ; then put it into an earthen or awoodden vessel, and when it is a little more than 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 taste of Spice orHerbs. Eringo- 6o SIR KENELMS DIGBIS roots put into it, when it is boiling, maketh it much better. Note, That if you make Hydromel by fermenta- tion 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 fermenta- tion. A VERY GOOD MEATH Put three parts of water to one of honey. When theHoneyis dissolved,it is to bear anEgge boyant. Boil it and skim it perfectly clear. You may boil in it Pellitory of the wall. Agrimony, or what herbs 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 ; andhang the otherparcel in the barrel bythe bung in a bagwith 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 with- out. TO MAKE WHITE METHEGLIN Take the Honey-combs, that the Honey is run out from them, and lay them in water over night ; next daystrain them, and put theLiquor a boiling; Then take the whites of two or three Eggs

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