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into it, which will give it a fine Colour and Flavour; 
when it is cool, ftrain out the Herbs through a Sieve, 
and with a Whisk whip up a fpoontul of good 
Barm with fome of the Liquor, which put into the 
Cask, then tun up your Liquor, {topping it loofely 
for a Day or two, then bungit clofe, trying the Vent 
now and then left it burft the Cask, and in five or fix 
Weeks it will be fine and fit for drinking; andif 
you bottle it, put two Cloves in each Bortle, and it 
will be fit to drink in a Fortnight. After the fame 
manner brew the ftronger fort, of a Quart of Honey 
to five Quarts of Water, and it will be fit to bottle 
the next Winter; and what you brew of that fort 
the latter End of Summer, will be fit to bottle the 
next Spring. 
Another Gentleman of the Socrety hath been 
prevailed on to furnifh thePublick with the follow- 
ing Receipt for making a fort of Mead, that hath 
been much approved of. Viz. 
