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1769 Recipes for Mead

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Bakersdozen:
I found this online.  It's a digitized newspaper article dated 1769.  https://preview.redd.it/riwo5xeph1k61.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b3556ea596f076cd66d0d96071fc8f3c20a1a06a

RAST:
That's a difficult read for me.

Bakersdozen:
Old English is difficult for me too.  I found this translation.
The first recipe sure does make a lot!

To make Mead.

To five quarts of honey, put sixty quarts of water, eighteen races of sliced ginger, and one handful of rosemary; let them boil three hours, and be scummed perpetually; when it is cold put your yeast to it, and it will be fit to bottle in eight or ten days.

2] Or, take four gallons of water, and six pounds of honey, and the whites of three or four eggs; boil it and skim it, and then put two ounces of beaten ginger, and a little lemon peel; let it boil almost half an hour, then strain it, and when cold put to it a little yeast; and when it is white over, tun it up. At three weeks end bottle it up, and in ten days it will be fit to drink.

RAST:
Lets be nice and say its an innkeepers recipe.

Zweefer:
I'm tempted to try the second option....   

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