To make Meath.
Take to six quarts of water, a quart of the best honey, and put it on the fire, and stir it, till the honey is melted: and boil it well as long as any scum riseth: and now and then put in a little cold water, for this will make the scum rise: keep your kettle up as full as you did put it on; when it is boiled enough, about half an hour before you take it off, then take a quan∣tity of Ginger sliced and well scraped first, and a good quantity of Rosemary, and boil both to∣gether. Of the Rosemary and Ginger you may put in more or less, for to please your taste: And when you take it off the fire, strain it into your vessel, either a well seasoned-tub, or a great cream pot, and the next morning when it is cold, pour off softly the top from the settlings into another vessel; and then put some little quantity of the best Ale-barm to it, Page 107 and cover it with a thin cloth over it, if it be in summer; but in the winter it will be longer a ripening, and therefore must be the warmer co∣vered in a close place, and when you go to bottle it, take with a feather all the barm off, and put it into your bottles, and stop it up close. In ten days you may drink it.
If you think six quarts of water be too much, and would have it stronger, then put in a greater quantity of honey.