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Making Mead: A Complete Guide to the Making of Sweet and Dry Mead, Melomel, Metheglin, Hippocras, Pyment and Cyser.
Mead is an alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey and water with yeast. A glass of lightly chilled mead on a summer's evening is a splendid delight. And yet, of all the crafts of mankind, mead-making is certainly one of the oldest. It is likely that mead was made even before the wheel was invented as stone-age cave paintings depict the collection of honey from bee colonies. The drink made from honey became a staple of Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Renaissance Britain. This practical book will inspire you to take up this admirable craft. It includes chapters on honey selection, mead-making techniques, and forty-two recipes for mead, melomel (using honey mixed with fruit juice), pyment (honey mixed with grapes), hippocras (honey mixed with grapes and herbs), metheglin (spiced medicinal mead), cyser (honey mixed with apples) and other honey drinks.
64 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1986
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March 18, 2018
When I got this through the post I was a little shocked and disappointed by it's size, it's tiny, I'd bought it off amazon so didn't realise it's kind of like a glorified pamphlet. The amazon seller had also fashioned his own envelope out of masking tape and some kind of magazine cover, which I guess added to my bafflement a little.
Maybe there isn't that much to say about man's oldest drink, but this is super short and sweet. It was clearly written in the sixties, has a very old English sense of humour, very charming. Though they didn't bother going into say sterilisation techniques there is a wonderful essay about the history of various cultures use of mead as an aphrodisiac.
They rattle through recipes, two or three a page, not really telling you what kind of percentage to expect, I guess you'll find that out yourself when you try them. They tell you about various fruit meads called Melomel, other mixtures with herbs or apples. Finally, there's a section on olde english mulled wine type cocktail things, called boswell, lambs wool, caudle and bolton abbey punch. This is a book of unexpected delights written in a charming English style. It's a little archaic, which suits the subject perfectly.
Maybe there isn't that much to say about man's oldest drink, but this is super short and sweet. It was clearly written in the sixties, has a very old English sense of humour, very charming. Though they didn't bother going into say sterilisation techniques there is a wonderful essay about the history of various cultures use of mead as an aphrodisiac.
They rattle through recipes, two or three a page, not really telling you what kind of percentage to expect, I guess you'll find that out yourself when you try them. They tell you about various fruit meads called Melomel, other mixtures with herbs or apples. Finally, there's a section on olde english mulled wine type cocktail things, called boswell, lambs wool, caudle and bolton abbey punch. This is a book of unexpected delights written in a charming English style. It's a little archaic, which suits the subject perfectly.
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