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Folio page 182v, Scribe's page 394.

My Lady Barklay's receipt to make Meade.
A. Fan +This attribution appears in a different hand in the left margin.
Take 6 gallons of spring water, a handful of tops of
rosemarie, a handfull of thyme, a handfull of bay leaves, 2
handfulls of Eglantine leaves, wash them clean and putt
them into the water, boyle it skimming it all the while for
an houre, then run it through a sieve, stirr it once in halfe
an houre for that day, at night putt in a Gallon of the purest
white honey well stirred into the liquour, the next day boyle it
againe and skim it verie cleane. putt in 2 eggs well beate
cleare it by skiming very well, and lett it boyle for half
an hour: after, take it of and run it through a sieve, poure
it into broad eathen Vessell or Vessells to coole. Be Sure to
pure the cleare from the bottome when it is well Settled.
Beat the whites of 3 eggs very well. putt to it 2 spoonfulls
of wheaten meale, 2 spoonfulls of yest, beat this very well
together, putt it into the liquour when it is c[o]ld, ladeling
of it euery half houre with a skiming dish for one day, next
morning: take the whites of 2 eggs, one spoonfull of wheat=
=meale, &smp; one of yest and beate all these well togeather
putting them into the liquour and mingling them well
togeather. Then turn up the liquor in your Vessell hanging
a bagg therein, of a pennieworth of cloaues, of ginger, of
Cinnamon, of nuttmeggs, bruise them well before you putt them
in. At 3 months you may drink it, at 6 months it is best.
Folio page 183r, Scribe's page 395.This page is blank, but has a note sewn into the page.
Take of Sarsaparilla cutt small
6 ounces, flinty china 2 ounces
Guarium halfe an ounce, infuse these
in 5 quarts of water 6 hours
then boil halfe away, with a
gentle fire : adde at the later End of boiling, liquerish Sliced
2 drams, halfe a dram of
Coriander Seeds, V pour it off
while hott & lett him drinke
it for his ordinary drinke
cheifely
If hie find it too hott, adde
2 ounces of [reisins] washd
(but whole) to the next boiling.
Dr. Lower.