1847 Oxford night caps (4th edition)

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MEAD AND BRAGGON, OR BRAGGET, Do not differ materially from Metheglin ; Howell says, " they differ in strength according to the three " degrees of comparison, Metheglin being strong " in the superlative, and if taken immoderately st doth stupify more than any other liquor." The following are the methods of preparing them. Mix the whites of six eggs with twelve 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 g , cloves, mace, and ginger ; when it is quite cold, add a spoonful or two of yeast, tun it, and when it has done working, In a few months bottle it off, and deposit it in a cellar of cool temperature. they are indeed varieties of the same. stop it up close,

R The best honey known is that of Narbonne in France, where rosemary abounds, it having a very

strong flavour of that plant,