Take fair water and the best honey beat them well together but not in a
wooden vessel for wood drinks up your honey put it together in a kittle
and trye it with a new laid egg which will swim at top if it be very
strong but if it bob up and sinke it will be to weake and you must add
more honey one quarter of honey to a gallon of water will make it very
strong then boyle it an hour and put in to it a bundle of herbs what
sort you like best a little bag of spices of nutmegs, ginger, cloves
and mace and cinnamon Scumme it well all the while it boyles when it
hath boyled a full hour take it off and put it into earthen pans and
so let it stand till the next day pour out all the clear of it into
a good vessel that hath had sack or white wine in it let your bag of
spices hang in it and so let it be very close stop’d & well filled and
let it stand a month longer then if you desire to drink it quickly you
may bottle it up if it be strong of the honey you may keep it a year
or 2, but if weaker than the proportions above writen then it will be
ready in 3 months to be spent rosemary time & sweet marjeron are ye
herbs should go into it a sprig or 2 of each.