of pale, or faint in Colour) Then pour the Sack from them, and throw away
the exhausted flowers, or distil a spirit from them; For if you let them
remain longer in the Sack, they will give an earthy tast to them. You may
then put the tincted Sack into fit bottles for your use, stopping them very
close. But if the season of the flowers be not yet past, your Sack will be
better, if you put it upon new flowers, which I conceive will not be the
worse, but peradventure the better, if they be a little dried in the shade.
If you drink a Glass or two of this sack at a meal, you will find it a
great Cordial.

Upon better consideration; I conceive the best way of making Hydromel with
Clove-gilly-flowers, is thus: Boil your simple Liquor to its full height
(with three parts of water to one of Honey), take a small parcel out, to
make a strong infusion of flowers, pouring it boyling hot upon the flowers
in earthen vessels. If you have great quantity, as six to one, of Liquor,
you will easily draw out the tincture in fourteen or sixteen hours
infusion; otherwise you may quicken your liquor with a parcel of Sack. In
the mean time make the great quantity of Liquor work with yest. When it
hath almost done fermenting, but not quite, put the infusion to it warm,
and let it ferment more if it will. When that is almost done, put to it a
bag with flowers to hang in the bung.

I conceive that Hydromel made with Juniper-berries (first broken and
bruised) boiled in it, is very good. Adde also to it Rosemary and
Bay-leaves.

Upon tryal of several ways, I conclude (as things yet appear to me) that to
keep Meath long, it must not be fermented with yest (unless you put Hops
to it) but put it in the barrel, and let it ferment of it self, keeping a
thick plate of lead upon the bung, to lie close upon it, yet so that the