Take 10 quarts of water to one quart of honey first boyle your water
and in it a handfull of herbs made into a bundle such as you best like,
as rosemary balme, Sweet marjerum and the like Scumme your water very
well and when boyled half an hour or more take out the herbs, then put
in your quart of honey to your ten quarts of water and boyle it near an
hour scumming it all the while it boyls, pour it then into some coolers
and when as cool as wort put in some ale yest, if but 10 quarts of
liquor then 2 spoonfulls of yest is enough, if more you must proportion
your yest to it, let it stand in the cooler till it be white all over
then tun it up into a good vessel that hath had sack or white wine in
it and when it hath done workeing Stop it very close and let it stand
in the barrel a week or 10 Days then draw it into bottles keeping it
close Stop’d and in a months time you may drink of it keep it as coole
as you can.