Metheglin recipe ( was Re: [Sca-cooks] OT: We're in the honey!)

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 12:14 PM 4/3/02 -0500, you wrote:
>On 3 Apr 2002, at 6:31, Avraham haRofeh wrote:
>
>> Recipe, please? If it's too OT, send it privately. :-)
>
>This is the original recipe.  It's from "Martha Washington's Booke of
>Cookery", a Tudor/Jacobean family cookbook which was inherited
>by the first First Lady.

Really? I thought you were referring to the Small Mead recipe that's in
Digby. Cariadoc has it in the _Miscellany_ I've used it several times. Put
a dent int he underside of the kitchen sink once when one blew. A stainless
steel sink, mind you...

'Lainie

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