(or rather but a threepence) of the Egg-shel must
Swim above the Liquor; which then put again into your
Copper to boil. It will be some while, before
it boil, (peradventure a goodquarter of an hour) but
all that while scum will rise, which skim away still
as it riseth; and it should be clear scummed by then
it boileth: which as soon as it doth, turn up
an hour Glass, and let it boil well a good hour.
A good quarter before the hour is out, put to it a
pound of White-Ginger beaten exceedingly small and
searsed (which will sever all the skins and course
parts from the fine) which having boiled a quarter
of an hour, so to make up the whole hour of boiling,
pour out the Liquor into wide open Vats to cool.
When it is quite cold, put a pottle of New-ale-barm
into a Pipe or Butt, standing endwise with his head
out, and pour upon it a Pail-full of your cool Liquor
out of one of the Vats; which falling from high upon
it with force, will break and dissipate the barm into
atoms, and mix it with the Liquor. Pour immediately
another pail-ful to that, continuing to do so, till
all the Liquor be in. Which by this time and
this course will be uniformly mixed with the barm,
and begin to work. Yet scoop and lade it well
a while, to make the mixtion more perfect, and set
the working well on foot. Then cover your But-head
with a sheet onely in Summer, but blankets in Winter;
and let your Liquor work about 24 hours or more.
The measure of that is, till the barm (which is raised
to a great head) beginneth a little to fall.
Then presently scum of the thick head of the barm,
but take not all away so scrupulously, but that there
may remain a little white froth upon the face of the
Liquor. Which scoop and lade strongly, mingling
all to the bottom, that this little remaining barm
may by this agitation be mixed a new with the whole.
Then immediately Tun this Liquor into two hogsheads
that have served for Spanish-wine (be sure to fill
them quite full) and there let it work two or three
days; that is to say, till you see that all the feculent
substance is wrought out, and that what runneth out,
beginneth to be clear, though a little whitish or frothy
on the upperside of the stream that runs down along
the outside of the hogshead. (If there should be a
little more then to fill two hogsheads, put it in
a Rundlet by it self.) Then take some very strong firm
Paper, and wet it on one side with some of the barm
that works out, and lay that side over the bung to
cover it close. The barm will make it stick fast
to the hogshead. This covering will serve for
a moneth or two. Then stop it close with strong
Cork fitted to the hole, with a linnen about it, to
press it fast in: But let a little vent with
a peg in it be made in hogshead, in some fit place
above. This may be fit to broach in five or six
moneths; but three weeks or a moneth before you do
so, put into each hogshead half an ounce of Cinnamon;
and two ounces of Cloves beaten into most subtile
powder. (Sometimes he leaves out the Cloves) which