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Honey Beverages

A fermented honey and water drink made with yeast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Honey Beverages

Ingredients

Directions

Make the must

  1. In a pot, combine honey and water.

  2. Heat the mixture until the honey dissolves completely.

  3. Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature.

Ferment and bottle

  1. Add yeast and stir gently.

  2. Cover the pot with a cloth and let it ferment for about 2 weeks.

  3. After fermentation, strain the liquid into bottles and seal.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Honey
Provides the sugars that yeast ferments into alcohol, and most of the sweetness.
Yeast
Consumes the sugars during fermentation, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide.

The step that matters

Cooling to room temperature before adding yeast. Adding yeast to hot liquid can kill it. Cooling the mixture first keeps the yeast alive so it can ferment the honey properly.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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