Boil Sweet Bryar, Sweet Marjoram, Cloves and Mace in Spring-water, till the water taste of them.  To four Gallons of water put one Gallon of honey, and boil it a little to skim and clarifie it.  When you are ready to take it from the fire, put in a little Limon-peel, and pour it into a Woodden vessel, and let it stand till it is almost cold.  Then put in some Ale-yest, and stir it altogether.  So let it stand till next day.  Then put a few stoned Raisins of the Sun into every bottle, and pour the Meath upon them.  Stop the bottles close, and in a week the Meath will be ready to drink.

SIR BAYNAM THROCKMORTON’S MEATHE.

Take four quarts of Honey, good measure; put to it four Gallons of water, let it stand all night, but stir it well, when you put it together.  The next day boil it, and put to it Nutmegs, Cloves, Mace and Ginger, of each half an ounce.  Let these boil with the honey and water till it will bear an Egge at the top without sinking; and then it is enough, if you see the Egge the breadth of a sixpence.  The next day put it in your vessel, and put thereto two or three spoonfuls of barm; and when it hath done working, you may (if you like it) put in a little Ambergreece in a clout with a stone to it to make it sink.  This should be kept a whole year before it be drunk; it will drink much the better, free from any tast of the honey, and then it will look as clear as Sack.  Make it not till Michaelmas, and set it in a cool place.  You may drink it a quarter old, but it will not taste so pleasant then, as when it is old.

TO MAKE WHITE METHEGLIN

Take a Gallon of Honey; put to it four Gallons of water; stir them well together, and boil them in a Kettle, till a Gallon be wasted with boiling and scumming.  Then put it into a vessel to cool.  When it is almost as cold as Ale-wort, then clear it out into another vessel:  Then put Barm upon it, as you do to your Ale, and so let it work.  And then Tun it up into a vessel, and put into it a bag with Ginger, Cloves, and Cinamon bruised a little, and so hang the bag in the vessel, and stop it up very close; and when it hath stood a month or six weeks, bottle it up and so drink it.  You may put in a little Limmon-peel into some of your Metheglin, for those that like that taste; which most persons do very much.

A RECEIPT FOR MAKING OF MEATH

Mistress Hebden telleth me, that the way of making Honey-drink in Russia, is thus; Take for example, 100 Gallons of Spring water, boil it a little; then let it stand 24 hours to cool, and much sediment will fall to the bottom; from which pour the clear, and warm it, and put 20 or 25 Gallons of pure honey to it, and lade it a long time with a great woodden battle-dore, till it be well dissolved.  The next day boil it gently, till you have skimed off all the scum that