Mead Recipe

Free Recipe Mead

Recipe Type: Free Recipes

Recipe Preparation: cook

Cooking Ingredients for Mead Recipe

3 lb Honey (lighter the better)
1 Lemon
1 Orange
1/2 oz Citric acid
2 -(up to)
3 dr Tannin -or-
1/16 oz Yeast

Mead Preparation

1. Put honey into large pot add hot water to make up total to 1 gallon stir well until honey melts, simmer low for further 5 mins. 2. Add the juice of lemon and orange, the tannin and citric acid. 3. Strain liquid into fermentation vessel,place in warm spot and plug the top with cotton wool. Wait 4 days then…… 4. Now fit fermentation lock onto vessel. ASIDE ( glass jar large enough to take all the liquid is all that is needed. To make ferm. vessel, as for the lock, use a rubber bung with a hole punched into the top..now buy an air lock (used in beer fermenting) and use that as the lock, cost $2.50). 5. After the mixture stops bubbling (approx 3-5 days) syphon into sterilised container add one Campden tablet and close the container with air lock. 6. Let stand until clear then syphon into sterilised bottles,add 1 teaspoon ofsugar per 750ml bottle and cap…wait 14 days then drink. IKIRK@BCM.TMC.EDU (I. DARLENE KIRK) REC.FOOD.RECIPES From rec.food.cooking archives.

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Recipe Serves: 1

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