1827 Oxford Night Caps

37

gallons of spring water, add twenty pounds of the best virgin honey and the peeling of three lemons; boil it an hour, and then put into it some rosemary, cloves, mace, and ginger; when it is quite cold,add a spoonful or two of yeast, tun it, and when it has done working, stop it up close. In a few month.s bottle it off, and deposit it in a cellar of cool temperature. feome prefer it without the spices, others without lemons. To each gallon of water add four pounds ot the whitest, purest,and best tasted honey, and the peeling of two lemons; boil it half an hour. Scum it when cold. Put it into a cask, add some yeast to it; when it has done fermenting, stop the cask up close, and at the expiration of eight months bottle it off. ^Thebest Honey known is thalofNarbonnc in France, where Rosemary abounds,it having a very strong flavour of that plant.