ighteen Gallons. And when it hath stood a day and a
night with these herbs in it after the last boiling, then strain the Liquor
from the herbs; and put as much of the finest and best honey into the
Liquor, as will bear an Egg; you must work the honey and liquor together a
whole day, until the honey be consumed; then let it stand one whole night;
then let it be well laboured again, and set it a clearing; and so boil it
again with the whites of six New-laid-eggs with the shells; skim it very
clean; and let it stand a day a cooling; then put it into a barrel, and
take Cloves, Mace, Cinnamon and Nutmegs as much as will please your taste,
and beat them all together, and put them in a Linnen bag, and hang it with
a thread into the barrel. Then take the whites of two or three
New-laid-eggs, a spoonful of barm, a spoonful of Wheat-flower, and beat
them all together, and put it into your Liquor in the barrel, and let it
work before you stop it; then afterwards stop it well, and set it in a cold
place, and when it hath been settled some six weeks: draw it into bottles,
and stop it very close, and drink not of it in a month after.

TO MAKE METHEGLIN

Take eight Gallons of water, set it over a clear fire in a Kettle; and when
it is warm, put it to sixteen pounds of very good honey, and stir it well
together; take off the scum, and put two large Nutmegs cut in quarters, and
so let it boil at least an hour; Then take it off the fire, and put to it
two good handfulls of grinded Malt, and with a white staff keep beating it
together till it be almost cold; then strain it through a hair-sieve into a
Tub, and put to it a wine-pint of Ale-yest, and stir it very well together;
and when it is cold, you may if you please, Tun it up presently into a
vessel fit for it, or else let it stand, and work a day, and when it hath
done working in your vessel, stop it up very close. It will be three weeks
or a month before it be ready to drink.

TO MAKE HONEY DRINK

To two quarts of water take one pound of Honey. When it boileth, skim it
clean as long as any scum ariseth; boil it a pretty while; then take it off
the fire, and put it in an earthen pot, and let it stand till the next day;
then put it into clean bottles, that are throughly dry, rinsing first every
bottle with a little of the liquor; Fill them not too full, and put into
every bottle four or five Cloves, and four or five slices of Ginger: and
stop it very close, and set it in Sand; and