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PART I: Historical Mead Making Introduction Recipes in Context Old Recipes into Modern Mead Making Ingredients Selected Recipes PART II: The Recipes Plain Meads Meads with Added Sugars Cirtus Meads Flower Forward Meads Spice Focused Meads Non-Spice (Herb) Focused Meads Multiple Flavors Complex Meads Braggots Miscellaneous Meads.
The book is intended for mazers familiar with basic Mead making.
Recipe interpretations are suitable for both those interested in using history as inspiration for more modern efforts and those focused on historical re-creation.
Multiple options are presented to bring Recipes forward for modern use, and specific recipe interpretations are given for each of the historical recipes.
Mead styles represented include plain mead, metheglins (spices herbs, and flowers), fruited meads (melomels), citrus meads, and braggots.
Changes in Mead Recipes over time are addressed with reference to historical factors driving that change.
Equipment, and methods used to produce the original Recipes are detailed and discussed as well as each of the over 100 different ingredients.
After a brief discussion of the source documents, Wellcome Mead focuses on understanding the original Recipes within the context of their historical world and developing useable modern interpretations for them.
Although the Recipes are drawn from a focused time and geography, they showcase the breadth and complexity of historical Mead recipes.
Each of the Recipes has been drawn from 17th and early 18th Century English household Receipt Books held by the Wellcome Library in London. and you must make it at Miclemas And not to be Drunk Tell Lent Wellcome Mead presents 105 historical Mead Recipes and their variants (29 additional recipes). if your vessell houlde Ten Gallons put in a Bout 5 Races of Ginger the out sides Paired a Way 2 Nuttmege and a Grote worth of Cinnamon A little mace a few Cloves ..
