A Sip Through Time: A Collection Of Old Brewing Recipes - Softcover

Renfrow, Cindy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962859834 ISBN 13: 9780962859830

Publisher: Cindy Renfrow, 1995

Synopsis

A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing Recipes contains, in a single illustrated volume, over 400 documented historic recipes for ale, beer, mead, metheglin, cider, perry, hypocras, wines, etc., dating from 1800 B.C. to modern times.

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About the Author

Cindy Renfrow is the author of "Take a Thousand Eggs or More", a collection of 15th century culinary recipes.

Reviews

I highly recommend it for the experienced brewer/vintner/mead-maker...

This is a fun -- and entertaining reference tool that readers will turn to again and again. A great gift for yourself or a friend.

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# 58 Another [Way] To Make Meath - 1669

6 wine quarts water
1/2 once whole nutmegs
1 lemon peel
1 quart honey
pulp of 2 or 3 lemons
lemon juice

Time to completion: less than 1 month. To every quart of honey allow six Wine-quarts of water; half an Ounce of Nutmegs, and the Peel of a Limon, and the meat of two or three, as you make the quantity. Boil these together, till the scum rise no more; It must stand till it be quite cold, and when you Tun it, you squeese into it the juyce of some Limons, and this will make it ripen quickly. It will be ready in less then a month.
(From The Closet of... Sir Kenelme Digby... Opened, 1669.) "

Edition details

• Publisher: Cindy Renfrow
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962859834
• ISBN 13: 9780962859830
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 334