Name: Cowslip Mead
Ingredients: 30 pounds honey; 15 gallons water

Cowslip Mead

Ingredients

30 pounds honey
15 gallons water

Directions

Combine honey and water in a large pot.
Boil the mixture until it reduces by one gallon.
Skim off any foam that forms on the surface.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Honey: Provides the sugar that ferments into alcohol and gives the mead its body and sweetness.
Water: Dissolves the honey and makes up the bulk of the liquid that is boiled down.

“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.