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Mead. No. 3

Ingredients

• 8 gallons of spring water
• 12 pounds of honey
• 4 pounds of powdered sugar
• 2 or 3 lemon-peels

Instructions

Take the spring water, honey, powdered sugar; boil them for an hour, keeping it well skimmed. Let it stand all night; the next day, put it into your vessel, keeping back the sediment; hang in your vessel the lemon-peels; then stop it up close; in the summer, bottle it in six weeks.

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Source

The Lady's Own Cookery Book (1844).