Boyle all these untill the egges
begin to look black, (these egges may be enough for a hoggeshead,)
then straine it forth through a fine sieve into a vessell to coole;
the next day tunne it up in a barrell, and when it hath workt itself
cleare, which will be in about a weeke's time, stop it up very close,
and if you make it strong enough, sc. to carry the breadth of a
sixpence, it will keep a yeare. This receipt is something neer that of
Mr. Thorn. Piers of the Devises, the great Metheglyn-maker. Metheglyn
is a pretty considerable manufacture in this towne time out of mind.
I doe believe that a quantity of mountain thyme would be a very proper
ingredient; for it is most wholesome and fragrant [Aubrey also gives
another "receipt to make white metheglyn," which he obtained "from old
Sir Edward Baynton, 1640." I have seen this old English beverage made
by my grandmother, as here described.-J. B.]
Mr. Francis Potter, Rector of Kilmanton, did sett a hive of bees in
one of the lances of a paire of scales in a little closet, and found
that in summer dayes they gathered about halfe a pound a day; and one
day, which he conceived was a honey-dew, they gathered three pounds
wanting a quarter. The hive would be something lighter in the morning
than at night. Also he tooke five live bees and putt them in a paper,
which he did cutt like a grate, and weighed them, and in an hower or
two they would wast the weight of three or four wheatcornes.
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