This treatise would not be complete without a receipt for Mead, the
following is the best that I have seen, and is most excellent:--Pour
five gallons of boiling water upon 20 lbs. of honey; boil, and remove
the scum as it rises; when it ceases to rise, add 1 oz. of hops, and
boil for ten minutes afterwards; put the liquor into a tub to cool.
When reduced to 75° of Fahrenheit, add a slice of bread toasted and
smeared over with a little yeast, let it stand in a warm room and be
stirred occasionally; and when it carries a head tun it, filling the
cask up from time to time. When the fermentation has nearly finished
bung it down, leaving a peg-hole, which may soon be closed; bottle in
about a year.