1925 Summer Drinks and Winter Codials by C F Leyel

Winter Cordials Mix well together and put into a tub to ferment. When fermentation is over, bottle.

Mead Dissolve one pound of honey m a gallon of water, add to it half a pound of dri ed hops and let them simmer for an hour. Then pour it into an earthenware bowl, and when almost cold stir in a tablespoonful of yeast. Leave it covered for three days, then str:i in it into a cask. Partly bung up the hole du rin g fermentation, and aft er it is over bun g it up tightly and leave it for twelve months before bottling. Mar igold TV ine Put into a pan t wenty-four pound s of whi te sugar, four pounds of honey, and t en ga llons of cold water, and when it is di ssolved, boil it. Then take it off the fire and add the beat en whit es of eight eggs. Boil it all together for fifty minut es . T ake off the scum, and then pour it ove r four pecks of the heads of marigold flowe rs. Add fo ur pound s of raisins. 72