de to it, if you please, two grains of Ambergreece, and
one grain of Musk. Stop the vessel with a Cork, but not too close, for six
days; then taste it: and if it taste enough of the Spice, then take out the
bag; if not, let the bag hang in it, and stop it very close, and meddle
with it no more. It will be ready to drink in nine or ten weeks.

A RECEIPT TO MAKE GOOD MEATH

Take as many Gallons of water, as you intend to make of Meath; and to every
Gallon put a quart of honey, and let it boil till it bear an Egg. To every
Gallon you allow the white of an Egg, which white you must remove and break
with your hands, and put into the Kettle, before you put it over the fire.
Before it boileth, there will arise a skum, which must be taken off very
clean, as it riseth. Put to every Gallon two Nutmegs sliced, and when it
hath boiled enough, take it off, and set it a cooling in clean
wort-vessels: And when it is as cold as wort, put in a little barm, and
work it like Beer, and when it hath done working, stop it up, and let it
stand two months.

ANOTHER TO MAKE MEATH

To every quart of honey allow six Wine-quarts of water; half an Ounce of
Nutmegs, and the Peel of a Limon, and the meat of two or three, as you make
the quantity. Boil these together, till the scum rise no more; It must
stand till it be quite cold, and when you Tun it, you squeese into it the
juyce of some Limons, and this will make it ripen quickly. It will be ready
in less then a month.

ANOTHER RECIPE

Take twelve Gallons of water, a handful of Muscovy (which is an herb, that
smelleth like Musk), a handful of Sweet-Marjoram, and as much of
Sweet-bryar. Boil all these in the water, till all the strength be out.
Then take it off and strain it out, and being almost cold, sweeten it with
honey very strong, more then to bear an Egg, (the meaning of this is, that
when there is honey enough to bear an Egg, which will be done by one part
of honey to three or four quarts of water: then you add to it a pretty deal
of honey more, at least 1/4 or 1/3 of what you did put in at first to make
it bear an Egg: then it is to be boiled and scummed: when it is thus
strong, you may keep it four years before you drink it. But at the end of
two years you may draw it out into bottles) just above it, else it will not
keep very long: for the more honey the better. Then set it over the fire
till it boils, and scum it very clean. Then take it from the fire, and let
it stand, till