Weak Honey-Drink

Ingredients

• nine pints of warm fountain water
• one pint of pure White-honey
• a little spoonful of cleansed and sliced Ginger
• half as much of the thin yellow rinde of Orange

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve honey in warm water, boil gently while skimming.

2. 2

   After boiling for two to three hours, add ginger and orange rind shortly before removing from heat.

3. 3

   Pour into a gally-pot and let cool.

4. 4

   Add Ale yeast and cover to ferment overnight.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened (1910) by Sir Kenelm Digby, page 74. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WEAK HONEY-DRINK Take nine pints of warm fountain water, and dis- solve in it one pint of pure White-honey, by laving it therein, till it be dissolved. Then boil it gently, skimming it all the while, till all the scum be per- fectly scummed off; and after that boil it a little longer, perad venture a quarter of an hour. In all it will require two or three hours boiling, so that at last one third part may be consumed. About a quarter of an hour before you cease boiling, and take it from the fire, put to it a little spoonful of cleansed and sliced Ginger ; and almost half as much of the thin yellow rinde of Orange

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