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1723 Mead Recipe
To Make Mead - 1723
3 gallons water
Lemon Balm
Sugar
Sweet marjoram
5 or 6 handfuls borage
1.5 pints ale yeast
3 lbs honey per gallon of liquid
lemon
30 cloves
2 oz whole nutmegs
rosemary
5 or 6 handfuls bugloss
6 ounces ginger
thyme
Set three gallons of water on the fire, put in balm, lemon, thyme, sweet marjoram and rosemary, let them boil some time, then put in borage and bugloss, and when they have boiled a little, take them off, strain them and set the liquor by to settle for a night. Then to every gallon on liquor add three Pound of Honey, put on the Fire, boil and scum as long as any scum rises, then take cloves, nutmegs and ginger, beat them, put them in a Bag and boil them in the liquor, a little before you take it off the fire. Then empty it into a vessel, put to it a pint and a half of ale yeast, lay a sheet over it and a Blanket upon that. Let it work sufficiently, then tun it, hang the bag of spice in the cask, and stop it up close for six or seven weeks, then bottle it off with some sugar.
Regards!!!
Hi salvador,
Just a note - I've not actually tried making this yet, but plan to have a go. It sounds very heavily spiced by today’s standards - and I'm not sure I'd be able to get the bugloss.
When making mead, personally, I never boil the liquor once the honey is in it, as I feel it can spoil the delicate flavour of the honey. (However, there's so much spice in this, that will probably be lost anyhow ) I would also substitute a wine yeast for the ale yeast, just because it's easier for me to get hold of it.
I am of the opinion that you should never boil your honey... sure you can boil the water and spices and herbs together, but the honey at best should be warmed never boiled.
Honey when boiled turns into a simple sugar, and that sort of defeats the point of using honey today.
As for spiced Meades... I love them and actually prefer them... Some say add your sprices afterwards... But my best results have always been to spice first ask questions later.
Thanks!!!
Some of those ingredients seem quite exotic to me. Where do you get them?
salvador, is there any specific reason to boil honey, I'm any thing special in that, those guys in the replies has the logic for not boiling the honey, but I think there must be something with boiling it?
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