1827 Oxford Night Caps

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let it stand covered up till the next morning, and,if it is then quite cold,putit into a cask. To every fifteen gallons add pulverized ginger, mace,cinnamon,and cloves,of each an ounce. To promote fermentation, put into the bung-hole two table-spoonsful of yeast. When it has done working stop it up, and in a month or six weeks it will be in a fit state to be drawn offinto bottles. do not differ materially from Metheglin; they are indeed varieties of the same. Howell says,"they differ in strength ac- "cording to the three degrees of compari- son, Metheglin being strong in the super- '* lative, and if taken immoderately doth "stupify more than any other liquor." Thefollowing are the methods of preparing them. Mix the whites of six eggs with twelve MEAD AND BRAGGON, OR BRAGGET,