Scots Recipes

Quick Metheglen
(Spiced Mead)

6 wine quarts water
1/2 ounce whole nutmegs
1 lemon peel
1 quart honey
pulp 3 lemons
lemon juice

Time to completion: less than 1 month.

To every quart of honey allow six wine-quarts of water add half an ounce of nutmeg, and the peel of a lemon and the pulp from them. Boil these together, till the scum rise no more.

It must stand till it be quite cold, and when you stir it, you squeeze into it the juice of some lemons, and this will make it ripen quickly.

Ready in less then a month.

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