1903 The Flowing Bowl by Edward Spencer

28 THE FLOWING BOWL draw it into bottles. Be sure that 'tis fine when 'tis bottled ; after 'tis bottled six weeks 'tis fit to drink. Fancy drinking Mead with your soup ! Morat was made of honey flavoured with mulberry juice ; and Pigment—which might be drunk at the Royal Academy banquets—was a sweet and rich liquor evolved from highly-spiced wine flavoured with honey. Metheglin was also called Hydromel and Oinomel. " The best Receipt whereof," writes an authority, " that I have observed to be made by them is thus : They take rasberries which grow in those parts {i.e. Swedeland, Muscovia, Russia, and as far as the Caspian Sea) and put them into fair water for two or three nights (I suppose they bruise them firstl that the water may extract their taste and colour Into this water they put of the purest honey, in proportion about one pound of honey to three or four ofwater. Then to give it a fermentation they put a tost into it dipp'd in the dregs or grounds of beer, which when it hath set the metheglin at work they take out again, to prevent any ill savour it may give ; if they desire to ferment it long they set it in a warm place ; which when they please to hinder or stop, they remove it into a cool place ; after it hath done fermenting they draw it off the lee for present use ; to add to its excellency they hang in it a little bagg, wherein is cinnamon, grains of paradise, and a few cloves. This may do very well for present drinking. But if you would make your metheglin of the same ingredients, and to be kept (time melior-