{"id":1170,"date":"2011-05-27T11:18:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T10:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:55:31","slug":"a-recipe-for-mead-from-mrs-beetons-cookery-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/a-recipe-for-mead-from-mrs-beetons-cookery-book","title":{"rendered":"A Recipe For Mead From Mrs Beeton&#8217;s Cookery Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>(Another recipe from my gran&#8217;s 1894 publication of &#8216;Mrs Beeton&#8217;s Cookery Book and Household Guide&#8217; &#8211; <strong><a title=\"Grannies\u2019 \u2018Mrs Beeton\u2019s Cookery Book\u2019\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/grannies-mrs-beetons-cookery-book\">see this post<\/a><\/strong> for more information.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MEAD.<br \/>\nINGREDIENTS.- 7 lbs. of honey, 2 gallons of water, 2 tablespoonfuls of yeast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mode.- Boil the honey and water for an hour, straining very carefully ; drain the skimmings through a sieve and return to the pan. When nearly cold, stir in the yeast and put in a cask in a cool place. In a year&#8217;s time, bottle; and use 3 months afterwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Time, 15 months. Average cost, 1s. 6d. per gallon. Seasonable at any time ; useful for a summer drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Another recipe from my gran&#8217;s 1894 publication of &#8216;Mrs Beeton&#8217;s Cookery Book and Household Guide&#8217; &#8211; see this post for more information.) MEAD. INGREDIENTS.- 7 lbs. of honey, 2 gallons of water, 2 tablespoonfuls of yeast. Mode.- Boil the honey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/a-recipe-for-mead-from-mrs-beetons-cookery-book\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mrs-beetons-cookery-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}