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Sad Mead

A beverage made by boiling water and honey.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Sad Mead

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the water in a pot.

  2. Add the honey to the boiling water.

  3. Boil for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.

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 fermentable sugars that yeast later turns into alcohol, and most of the mead's sweetness and body.
Water
Dissolves the honey and forms the bulk of the liquid in which the mead is made.

The step that matters

Boiling the honey and water together. Honey dissolves fully in hot water, and a steady boil with stirring keeps it from scorching on the bottom of the pot. Scorched honey takes on burnt flavours that carry into the finished mead.

“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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