AN EXCELLENT METHEGLIN

Take Spring-water, and boil it with Rose-mary, Sage, Sweet-Marjoram, Balm and Sassafras, until it hath boiled three or four hours:  The quantity of the Herbs is a handful of them all, of each a like proportion, to a Gallon of water.  And when it is boiled, set it to cool and to settle until the next day:  Then strain your water, and mix it with honey, until it will bear an Egg the breadth of a Groat.  Then set it over the fire to boil.  Take the whites of twenty or thirty Eggs, and beat them mightily, and when it boileth, pour them in at twice; stir it well together, and then let it stand, until it boileth a pace before you scum it, and then scum it well.  Then take it off the fire, and pour it in earthen things to cool:  and when it is cold, put to it five or six spoonfuls of the best yest of Ale you can get:  stir it together, and then every day scum it with a bundle of Feathers till it hath done working:  Then Tun it up in a Sack-cask and to every six gallons of Metheglin put one pint of Aquavitae, or a quart of Sack; and a quarter of a pound of Ginger sliced, with the Pills of two or three Limons and Orenges in a bag to hang in it.

The Whites of Eggs above named, is a fit proportion for 10 or 12 Gallons of the Liquor.

TO MAKE WHITE MEATHE

Take six Gallons of water, and put in six quarts of Honey, stirring it till the honey be throughly melted; then set it over the fire, and when it is ready to boil, skim it clean; then put in a quarter of an Ounce of Mace; so much Ginger; half an Ounce of Nutmegs; Sweet-marjoram, Broad-thyme and Sweet-Bryar, of all together a handful, and boil them well therein.  Then set it by, till it be throughly cold, and barrel it up, and keep it till it be ripe.

ANOTHER TO MAKE MEATHE

To every Gallon of water, take a quart of Honey, to every five Gallons, a handful of Sweet-marjoram, half a handful of Sliced-ginger; boil all these moderately three quarters of an hour; then let it stand and cool:  and being Lukewarm, put to every five Gallons, about three quarts of Yest, and let it work a night and a day.  Then take off the Yest and strain it into a Runlet; and when it hath done working:  then stop it up, and so let it remain a month:  then drawing out into bottles, put into every bottle two or three stoned Raisins, and a lump of Loaf-sugar.  It may be drunk in two months.

ANOTHER VERY GOOD WHITE MEATH

Take to every Gallon of water a quart of Honey:  boil in it a little Rose-mary and Sweet-marjoram:  but a large quantity of Sweet-bryar-leaves, and a reasonable proportion of Ginger:  boil these in the Liquor, when it is skimed; and work it in due time with a little barm.  Then tun it in a vessel; and draw it into bottles, after it is sufficiently settled.  Whites of Eggs with the shells beaten together, do clarifie Meath best.  If you will have your Meath cooling, use Violet and Straw-berry-leaves, Agrimony, Eglantine and the like:  adding Borage and Bugloss, and a little Rosemary and Sweet-Marjoram to give it Vigor.