Take so much clear honey in cold spring water it must be such water
as will bear soap well and mingle your water and honey till it will
bear an egg when your honey is dissolved in your water cold then put
it in a kettle and boyle it 2 hours still scumming it while any scumme
will rise then put it into coolers and when coole as wort to every
12 gallons of liquor put a large quarter of a pint of ale yest then
barrel it up filling your vessel not full about 3 fingers breadth of
ye bung hole and hang in your barrell an ounce and half of nutmegs
grossly beaten in a bag with a bullet or the like to keep your spice
low in your barrell so stop it up and at the years end drink of it and
when you draw of it you may bottle it if you please the older it is
the better but your vessel must be stop’d very close all the time you
keep it and Drink not of it till 12 months old. Probatum est by ye Lady
Downs.