- J. EVELYN.) Desire of Mr. Hook, R.S.S. a copie of the
modelle of his excellent bee-hive, March 1684-5; better than any yet
known. See Mr. J. Houghton's Collections, No. 1683, June, where he
hath a good modelle of a bee-hive, pag. 166. Mr. Paschal hath an
ingeniouse contrivance for bees at Chedsey; sc. they are brought into
his house. Bee-hive at Wadham College, Oxon; see Dr. Plott's
Oxfordshire, p. 263.
Heretofore, before our plantations in America, and consequently before
the use of sugar, they sweetened their [drink, &c.] with honey; as wee
doe now with sugar. The name of honey-soppes yet remaines, but the use
is almost worne out. (At Queen's College, Oxon, the cook treats the
whole hall with honey-sops on Good Friday at dinner. - BISHOP TANNER.)
Now, 1686, since the great increase of planting of sugar-canes in the
Barbados, &c. sugar is but one third of the price it was at thirty
yeares since. In the time of the Roman Catholique religion, when a
world of wax candles were used in the churches, bees-wax was a
considerable commodity.
To make Metheglyn:-(from Mistress Hatchman. This receipt makes good
Metheglyn; I thinke as good as the Devises). Allow to every quart of
honey a gallon of water; and when the honey is dissolved, trie if it
will beare an egg to the breadth of three pence above the liquor; or
if you will have it stronger putt in more honey. Then set it on the
fire, and when the froth comes on the toppe of it, skimme it cleane;
then crack eight or ten hen-egges and putt in the liquor to cleare it:
two or three handfulls of sweet bryar, and so much of muscovie, and
sweet marjoram the like quantity; some doe put sweet cis, or if you
please put in a little of orris root.
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