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Georges Edelen

VI. Of Food and Diet of the English

A snippet regards Perry, Cider and Metheglin

"In some places in England there is a kind of drink made of apples which
they call cider or pommage, but that of pears is named pery, and both are
ground and pressed in presses made for the nonce.  Certes these two are very
common in Sussex, Kent, Worcester, and other steads where these sorts of
fruit do abound; howbeit, they are not their only drink at all times but
referred unto the delicate sorts of drink, as metheglin [mead} is in Wales,
whereof the Welshmen make no less account (and not without cause , if it be
well handled) than the Greeks did of their ambrosia or nectar, which for the
pleasantness thereof was supposed to be such as the gods themselves did
delight in.  There is a kind of swish-swash made also in Essex and divers
other places with honeycombs and water, which the homely country wives,
putting some pepper and a little other spice among, call mead, very good in
mine opinion for such as love to be loose-bodied at large or a little eased
of the cough; otherwise it differeth so much from the true metheglin as
chalk from cheese.  Truly it is nothing bu the washing of the combs, when
the honey is wrung out, and one of the best things that I know belonging
thereto is they spend little effort and less cost in making the same, and
therefore no great loss if it were never occupied."

Note: I believe the bracket {mead}after the first occurance of metheglin in
the above quote is a comment from the editor.

Daniel Raoul
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