Mead
Ingredients:
- 4 pounds honey
- 1 gallon water
- 1 ounce hops
- ½ ounce root ginger
- 2 lemons
- 1 ounce yeast
- 1 ounce isinglass
Directions
Dissolve four pounds of honey in a gallon of water and add an ounce of hops, half an ounce of root ginger and the pared rind of two lemons. Boil this for 45 minutes, pour it into a cask to the brim and, when it is still lukewarm, add an ounce of yeast.
Leave the mead to ferment and when this has ended, put in a quarter of an ounce of isinglass (obtainable from wine-making supply stores) and bung the cask tightly.
In six months it should be bottled.