Mead

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 45 min Total: 8100 min
Status
success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (4)
Mead Base
Flavoring
Fermentation
Instructions (8)
  1. To every gallon of water put three pounds and a half of honey, boil them together three quarters of an hour.
  2. To every gallon of liquor put about two dozen of walnut leaves.
  3. Pour your liquor boiling hot upon them.
  4. Let them stand all night.
  5. Then take the leaves out and put in a spoonful of yeast.
  6. Let it work two or three days.
  7. Then make it up.
  8. Let it stand three months, and then bottle it.
Original Text
TO every gallon of water put three pounds and a half of honey, boil them together three quarters of an hour, to every gallon of liquor put about two dozen of walnut leaves, pour your liquor boiling hot upon them, let them stand all night, then take the leaves out and put in a spoonful of yeast, and let it work two or three days, then make it up, let it stand three months, and then bottle it.
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